The Rally Monkey is an important figure in the history of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Major League Baseball team. The character debuted on June 6, 2000, when the Angels were trailing the San Francisco Giants 5–4 in the bottom of the ninth inning. Two video board operators, Dean Fraulino and Jaysen Humes, took a clip of a monkey jumping around from the 1994 Jim Carrey movie comedy Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, and superimposed the words "RALLY MONKEY!" on top of it.

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  • The Rally Monkey is an important figure in the history of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Major League Baseball team. The character debuted on June 6, 2000, when the Angels were trailing the San Francisco Giants 5–4 in the bottom of the ninth inning. Two video board operators, Dean Fraulino and Jaysen Humes, took a clip of a monkey jumping around from the 1994 Jim Carrey movie comedy Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, and superimposed the words "RALLY MONKEY!" on top of it. The Angels scored two runs and won the game. The video clip proved to be so popular that the team hired Katie, a white-haired capuchin monkey, to star in original clips for later games. When seen, she bounces to the House of Pain song "Jump Around" and sometimes holds a sign proclaiming that it is "RALLY TIME!" Additional videos featuring the Rally Monkey show it edited into popular films and TV shows such as Gilligan's Island, Shrek, Ferris Beuller's Day Off, The Brady Bunch Movie, Signs, Jurassic Park, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Scream, Dumb and Dumber, National Lampoon's Vacation, Night at the Museum, The Natural, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Spaceballs, Poltergeist, ', The Sandlot, Jaws and The Ring. The team also started selling plush monkeys that fans bring to games. ESPN also did a "This is SportsCenter" commercial in which it showed one of the executives having to make "budget cuts," leading to the release of the monkey. The monkey pleaded by raising the "It's Rally Time" sign. The commercial is available on NFL 2K5. Perhaps the most famous comeback ever "credited" to the Rally Monkey, Game 6 of the 2002 World Series saw the Angels overcome a 5-0 deficit after 6.5 innings, once again against the San Francisco Giants.
  • 逆轉猴是在2000年6月6日誕生的。當天在主場的天使隊於比賽的九局下半仍落後給舊金山巨人(San Francisco Giants)兩分。兩位電子看板操作員Dean Fraulino和Jason Humes從金凱瑞(Jim Carrey)1994年的喜劇電影《王牌威龍》上剪了一段猴子跳來跳去的短片，並加上了"Rally Monkey!"的字樣以振奮士氣。到終場，天使隊逆轉贏了這場跨聯盟的比賽。因此逆轉猴一炮而紅，球隊也決定以猴子作為螢幕宣傳的主角。 這隻白色的卷尾猴名叫Katie，在影集《六人行》(Friends)中扮演Marcel，男主角之一Ross（David Schwimmer飾）的寵物。如今她有了新的任務：在關鍵時刻或是比分落後時替天使隊的球員和球迷們打氣。她會在House of Pain樂團的"Jump Around"音樂中出場，有時手上還會拿著宣示逆轉時刻到來的"Rally Time!"招牌。 逆轉猴最神奇的事蹟發生在2002年的世界大賽(World Series)，在關鍵的第六場比賽。七局上半，天使隊仍然落後給對手巨人隊五分，但在接下來的兩個半局天使連追六分,最終以一分之差擊敗巨人，並在隔天晚上贏得了隊史首座的世界冠軍。逆轉猴成了天使隊的象徵，時至今日，球迷們仍會帶著填充猴娃娃到天使球場為他們的球隊喝采。 猴子影片的來源還包括了以下的電影: The Brady Bunch Movie (1995年) Signs（《靈異象限》，2002） Jurassic Park（《侏儸紀公園》，1993年） The Ring（《七夜怪談》，2002年） 逆轉猴只有在以下的情況才會出場: 當在七局以後落後給對手三分之內，或是暫時平手，且壘上有跑者猴兒才會登板
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  • The Rally Monkey is an important figure in the history of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Major League Baseball team. The character debuted on June 6, 2000, when the Angels were trailing the San Francisco Giants 5–4 in the bottom of the ninth inning. Two video board operators, Dean Fraulino and Jaysen Humes, took a clip of a monkey jumping around from the 1994 Jim Carrey movie comedy Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, and superimposed the words "RALLY MONKEY!" on top of it.
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  • Rally Monkey
  • 逆轉猴
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