CLEARWATER — Canines can be therapy dogs, police dogs and service dogs, search-and-rescue dogs, watch dogs or delivery dogs. Others live as domesticated royalty, the lucky ones allowed on the couch.

CLEARWATER, Fla. (WFLA) — Layla, a retired bat dog with the Clearwater Threshers baseball team, has died, the baseball team announced in a post on Facebook. Layla was a bat dog for the Threshers for ...

CLEARWATER, Fla. — A local minor league baseball team gave a very special sendoff to their bat dog as she celebrated her retirement at a game over the weekend. Layla, the 13-year-old white Labrador, ...

CLEARWATER, Fla. — The Clearwater Threshers are winning at a clip of .688. It’s the highest winning percentage in major and minor league baseball. They have a run differential of 107, tied for ...

CLEARWATER, Fla. (WPVI) -- A newly appointed "bat dog" is going viral for doing her duty. The Clearwater Threshers, the single-A affiliate of the Phillies, welcomed Lucy May to the team on Friday. She ...

CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) -- The surging number of COVID-19 cases in Florida is affecting minor league baseball in the state as a pair of games involving the Philadelphia Phillies organization will not be ...

The Clearwater (Fla.) Threshers, a minor-league High-A affiliate for the Philadelphia Phillies, become part of baseball history on Monday night by winning a game without a hit or walk. How is that ...

The beloved 13-year-old bat dog retrieved her final baseball bat at Friday’s game against the Fort Myers Mighty Muscles. Gabrielle Lazor is a former intern. The Tampa Bay Times e-Newspaper is a ...