Shirtless Cardinals fans take over empty section in electric scene during walk-off win over the Royals

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You never know what you are going to see at the ballpark.

During the ninth inning of the St. Louis Cardinals' 5-4 win over the Kansas City Royals on Friday night at Busch Stadium, fans started migrating to an empty section in right field and took their shirts off.

The game was tied 3-3 in the bottom of the ninth inning when the group of fans made their way to the empty section. About 100 fans first started the movement, and as the game went to extra innings, the entire section was packed with shirtless fans, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

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St. Louis Cardinals' Yohel Pozo celebrates after hitting a walk-off single to defeat the Kansas City Royals in the 11th inning of a baseball game in St. Louis, Missouri, on May 15, 2026. (Jeff Roberson/AP Photo)

Caleb Cummings, a 20-year-old on the Stephen F. Austin club baseball team, came up with the idea.

"I looked at my buddy and said, ‘What if we go up there to right field bleachers and start waving our shirts?" Cummings told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "They're like, ‘You know what, that's a good idea.’ We had no intentions of it getting that big — we were just going out there to have fun. We got up there, and we're all standing there, and we're like, ‘Who's gonna do it first?’"

Bryce Bradford was the first to remove his shirt and wave it around, and it quickly drew a crowd.

"He started waving it and going crazy," Cummings said. "So then it just spread, and then there are a few kids in the section next to us who came to join. And soon, I see people from the ages of like 80 years old to kids doing it. Dads coming over with their