A beekeeper basked in the limelight at a Major League Baseball (MLB) game this week, heroically removing a bee colony that formed on top of the protective netting above home plate. The game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Arizona Diamondbacks was delayed by almost two hours on Tuesday night (30 April) before Matt Hilton,

A pest control professional cleared a bee swarm of thousands while fans roared and later earned the nod for ceremonial first pitch before a delayed game Los Angeles Dodgers-Arizona Diamondbacks matchup in Phoenix.

A few hours before Christian Walker’s second homer of the game gave the D-backs a 4-3 walk-off win over the Dodgers in the 10th inning, a crucial series of events was about to start unfolding at a different type of ballgame on the Westside of the Valley.