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BEEEES! 🐝🐝🐝
— Colorado Rockies (@Rockies)
No, not the bees! Not the bees!
A swarm of honey-making insects invaded the Rockies-Padres’ spring training game Thursday. In the top of the ninth inning with Rockies’ Daniel Castro at the plate, a bevy of bees filled the the infield forcing everyone on the field to lay flat on the ground.
“This is reminiscent of Petco Park a few years ago,” Rockies manager Bud Black said in an interview after the game. “Remember when the beekeeper had to come down to the left-field corner? That was about 20 or 30 minutes (of delay).”
In the video, the bees eventually settled on a nearby boom mic.
It’s not the first the Rockies had to deal with bees — a similar incident happened last year .
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Bees settle on a boom mic during the Rockies-Padres preseason game on March 30, 2017.
