Bees Invade Marlins’ Sun Life Stadium
FunHouse-Sun Life Stadium, home to the Florida Marlins, is known for, above all, having the sparsest crowd in Major League Baseball night in and night out. Tune in to any Marlins home game and you are sure to notice vast expanses of empty orange seats.
Attend a game there, and you are likely to have your pick of seats. That is, unless you happened to attend Saturday night’s game between the Marlins and Nationals. The Marlins wound up having to rope off a section down the third-base line near the visitor’s bullpen because a swarm of bees decided to make it home.
No one was stung, and a bee removal company was called in to deal with the swarm.
“Fortunately, we didn’t see them,” Nationals reliever Drew Storen said. “I’m obviously not a big fan of bees — brings back bad childhood memories. It would have been a bad distraction.”
Said Marlins left fielder Chris Coghlan, who spotted the swarm while he was stretching before the game: “There were a whole bunch of them. I didn’t see any during the game.”
At least for one night someone was there to see the Marlins play.
