Arizona beekeeper Matt Hilton got to throw out the first pitch at the Diamondbacks' game Tuesday after saving the day from a massive bee swarm that formed on the net over home plate.
Arizona beekeeper Matt Hilton arrived at Chase Field Tuesday night to deal with a swarm of bees, and he ended up staying to throw out the first pitch. The Diamondbacks' game against the Los Angeles Dodgers was delayed nearly two hours Tuesday night when a swarm of bees began to gather at the top of the protective netting behind home plate. Diamondbacks vice president of baseball operations Mike Rock got a call about five minutes before the start of the game.
said we have bees landing on the net right behind home plate. I said, ‘How many?’ And she said, hundreds — no way, thousands. And I knew we had a problem.' That’s when a call to Hilton, a branch manager for Blue Sky Pest Control's Phoenix office, was placed. BEES SWARM COURT AT INDIAN WELLS, SUSPENDING CARLOS ALCARAZ-ALEXANDER ZVEREV MATCH 'Minor leagues to the big leagues now,' Hilton, who was at his son’s T-ball game when he got the call, joked after the game.
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