No baboon: Twitter jumps all over reporter’s autocorrect goof of haboob

There was a delay of over 21 minutes in the Arizona Diamondbacks’ home game on Monday night against the Texas Rangers.

If you were first updated on the news via ESPN’s Pedro Gomez and his Twitter feed, you were really, really confused.

@Rangers and @Dbacks delayed in downtown Phoenix because a baboon went through town and overloaded the grid, knocking some lights out.

— Pedro Gomez (@pedrogomezESPN) July 31, 2018

No, it was not a baboon storming through the Valley, rather, a monsoon storm that caused thousands of reported outages across the Phoenix area.

One of those reported outages was the cause of the delay, which had a portion of the lights at Chase Field go out.

Gomez decided to have fun with it, retweeting several replies of baboon-related jokes.

Live footage!!!! #Dbacks pic.twitter.com/R6RskLHcpJ

— Ray Valerio Jr. (@azsportsnut365) July 31, 2018

That's one hell of a baboon. https://t.co/tsW0j6DkaP

— Dave Burns (@Burnsy987) July 31, 2018

Some of the Valley’s teams got in on the fun.

Those crazy Arizona baboons…

— Arizona Diamondbacks (@Dbacks) July 31, 2018

Where you at @SunsGorilla? 👀 https://t.co/yZrAGF4AWW

— Phoenix Suns (@Suns) July 31, 2018

pic.twitter.com/S12ds8CMRX

— SunsGorilla (@SunsGorilla) July 31, 2018

The Phoenix Zoo was there for the save in case anyone decided to take the tweet seriously.

Can confirm our baboons are safe and accounted for. #haboob https://t.co/Y2SgaYZDoA

— Phoenix Zoo (@PhoenixZoo) July 31, 2018

The D-backs were down four runs going into the ninth inning and decided they were desperate.

To the bottom of the 9th. Desperate times call for desperate measures. #RallyBaboon pic.twitter.com/oGaMiLRZAv

— Arizona Diamondbacks (@Dbacks) July 31, 2018

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