Of course, one reason real baseball is such a joy as opposed to virtual baseball is that bizarre incidents such as former Sox player Darren Oliver getting attacked by bees happen only in real baseball.
“It seemed like wherever anybody went, a swarm of them popped up,” Colorado catcher J.D. Closser said.
Must be the first time Oliver managed to get a whole series of pop ups. I also liked this line:
The bees then moved to the first base area in the next half-inning, where the Rockies’ Todd Helton swatted them away.
Typical Helton, solves everything by mashing.