Rockies-Royals game overrun by massive swarm of bees
It’s spring training, which means it’s time for bees to disrupt baseball games.
We’ve seen it happen to the Yankees and during a regular season game in Anaheim between the Angels and Mariners, but the Royals attract bees like nobody else.
On March 8, 2015, a game at the Angels’ facility in Tempe was delayed because bees congregated behind the plate. On March 8, 2016, another swarm of bees descended upon Kansas City’s home game against the Rockies. Spooky.
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What appear to be a swarm of bees have driven Ned and his coaching staff from their seats near the on-deck circle into the dugout. #Royals
— Josh Vernier (@JoshVernier610) March 8, 2016
The bees have arrived to watch @Royals vs @Rockies @KCStar #SpringTraining #Royals #Rockies pic.twitter.com/8GiVzkCeTo
— John Sleezer (@jsleezer) March 8, 2016
#Royals Ned Yost wants the bees vacuumed up, not killed during game against #Rockies. @KCStar @Royals pic.twitter.com/wHoagjtBsN
— John Sleezer (@jsleezer) March 8, 2016
Swarm of bees attached itself to this container next to the #Royals dugout. Since been cleared, but WOW! pic.twitter.com/jFzcdaPY06
— Meredith Wills (@Bbl_Astrophyscs) March 8, 2016
When this happened last year, manager Ned Yost was distressed by the “mass bee genocide,” so he insisted this time around that they be removed alive.
Yost didnt want bees on the field to be exterminated so had come up with a Plan B. (I know, I know). Two men put them in a bag & saved them
— Jesse Sanchez (@JesseSanchezMLB) March 8, 2016
A retired beekeeper named Lowell Hutchinson helped contain the bees, according to the Kansas City Star, and the game was able to continue without delay.
- Dan Gartland
