Over the years, the Padres have lost almost as many games to freak occurrences as they have to rain.

There was the transformer that exploded in the light ring at Qualcomm Stadium in 2002, starting a small fire. There were the skunks that raced out of the tarp drum at Qualcomm Stadium one night in 1983. And there was the tarp in 1990 that disintegrated into hundreds of pieces when given a tug during a rare rain delay.

Thursday afternoon will be remembered as the day the bees visited Petco Park.

A swarm of bees forced a 52-minute delay in the top of the ninth of the Astros' 7-2 win over the Padres. The bees entered Petco Park over the Padres' bullpen in left-center, swarmed along the warning track in left and finally settled inside a jacket—owned by the ...More