While fans were ready to attend the baseball game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Arizona DiamondBacks on Tuesday, the game was delayed by almost two hours. The cause: a swarm of bees that formed on a safety net at Chase Field stadium located in Phoenix, Arizona.
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To the fiery rhythms of “Holding Out for a Hero” by Bonnie Tyler, Matt Hilton, a local beekeeper arrived on the stadium pitch to dislodge the swarm. Under the encouragement of tens of thousands of spectators, the specialist sprayed a non-lethal product on the bees and collected them in a vacuum cleaner to “release them later,” Major League Baseball (MLB) described on its site.
A star is born
Becoming the hero of the evening, Matt Hilton even had the right to throw the first ball of the game to the applause of the audience: “I thought I was just there to solve a bee problem,” he said. he joked following his intervention. “People were quite enthusiastic.”
The enthusiasm is such that the Topps company, which manufactures collector’s cards, announced that it had signed a partnership with the beekeeper to sell cards signed with his image.
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“I dealt with the bees at Chase Field last night, and apparently it became a state affair,” Matt Hilton told FOX 10 Phoenix.
2024-05-03 08:37:47
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