Cameras first caught a cat loitering between pitches in foul territory on the third base side. After the Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge fouled off a pitch on a 1-2 count, the cat darted into left-center field, putting the game on pause.

“Uh oh, this could be awhile,” said the play-by-play announcer Michael Kay on the Yankees broadcast.

“Look at this thing go; it’s faster than anybody on the Yankees,” said Kevin Brown on the Orioles broadcast.

The animal pranced along the warning track near the Orioles bullpen, then displayed its impressive agility by leaping onto the fence.

“Nice. Good hops,” Kay said.

After shimmying across the fence, the cat hopped off and took a gander at the view. Humans began approaching; the crowd booed.

But the humans were no match as the cat easily ran away from them. The crowd cheered.

It hopped on and off the fence, leaping high but not nearly high enough to escape, plummeting several times to the ground. Being a cat, it repeatedly got up.

Four humans surrounded it; they were unsuccessful. The crowd began chanting, “M.V.P.”

Five more humans surrounded it; they had no chance.

The cat cowered under the fence near the left foul pole. This time, seven people converged.

It ran straight between the legs of a man as it escaped; the crowd went wild.

But the cheers turned to boos when the cat headed straight through an open door on the third-base line and ran off the field. Now everyone would have to return to watching baseball.

The Yankees lost to the Baltimore Orioles, 7-1.

Orioles outfielder Cedric Mullins said he saw the cat in the dugout earlier in the game, “just chilling.” He added, “Next thing I know, I heard all the fans cheering. I didn’t know what was going on,” according to MLB.com. “I didn’t see the cat until he was out at the outfield wall. Then it was seeing seven grown men get their ankles broken by a cat. It was pretty funny to watch.”

A Yankees spokesman did not respond to a message seeking comment on Monday night, so the fate of the cat is, for now, unknown.

There was slightly less drama the same night in Washington, where the Nationals’ defense got an extra defender on the field: A praying mantis attached itself to the cap of Victor Robles. It was spotted in the dugout in the bottom of the eighth inning, and remained on the center fielder’s noggin into the top of the ninth.