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. — Clearwater's Minor League team says its Friday night game against the Fort Myers Mighty Mussels is postponed. The Threshers say the reason behind the postponement is so the team can ...

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. — 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. — 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. (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 ...

CLEARWATER — The voice of the Clearwater Threshers grew up a couple hours down the coast, listening to Dewayne Staats and making annual family trips to the Trop. The giveaway to what Kirsten Karbach ...

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 ...