In one of the last spring training games of the season, the Colorado Rockies may have beaten the San Diego Padres 10-4, but the bees got the last laugh.
Opening Day may be just around the corner in the MLB, but we’ve still got a few more days worth of spring training games left on the slate. In a late afternoon game between National League West division rivals Colorado and San Diego, something amazing/terrifying happened. Bees!
Yes, a swarm of bees took the field in the top of the ninth when the San Diego Padres were trailing the Colorado Rockies 10-4 with runners on first and third. Defeat was eminent for the Padres in this glorious exhibition, but bees!
Everybody on the Peoria Sports Complex diamond did the logical thing by laying flat on the dirt or grass. It’s not like bees hang out in the ground sometimes, but okay. The bees delayed the game in 20 or so minutes in their not-so peaceful protest. Bees can’t take knees, they just take infields.
Rockies manager Bud Back was asked about the bees situation going on the top of the ninth. He seemed a little flustered about it in all honesty. Why wouldn’t he bee? Bees are endangered and they don’t mess around when they are Raising
Arizona
awareness.
Maybe the Peoria bees just wanted to see the game end? It’s not like San Diego was overcoming that six-run deficit any way. There is a good chance that they would have rather seen the other Peoria Sports Complex occupant Seattle Mariners take the diamond.
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Either way, baseball has to recognize who won on the diamond in Peoria on Thursday evening. They may not have a major league team named after them, but what other mascot could bring an entire field to the turf? Just bees.