DENVER -- Bugs and baseball. Their worlds have collided before, and we don’t mean Bugs Bunny and the Gas House Gorillas .

Perhaps the most famous example is when the Yankees’ Joba Chamberlain stood on the mound in Cleveland trying to survive an attack by a swarm of Lake Erie midges during Game 2 of the 2007 American League Division Series.

But on Thursday night at Coors Field, there was a different sort of insect infringement on the field. During the bottom of the ninth inning of the D-backs’ 8-2 win over the Rockies , Arizona reliever Jalen Beeks was met with an uninvited guest as he lifted his leg to deliver a pitch to Brenton Doyle.

“Yeah, l swallowed a fly when I lifted my leg,” Beeks said. “Never had that happen, but, you know, we got through it. We got the win. That’s the

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