When a drone suddenly appeared near the left-field wall at Sutter Health Park’s home opener on Monday night, veteran Athletics bat boy Stewart Thalblum decided to help thwart it.
The drone tried to lift him off the grass but Thalblum used a bat and brought it down, careful not to cut himself with the spinning blades, while park security offered up a helping hand and a towel just in case.
Once the device had been corralled, Thalblum handed it off to a security guard.
The drone appeared with Seth Brown batting for the Athletics in the seventh inning of the Chicago Cubs‘ 18-3 rout and it delayed the game for a few minutes.
“I think for me I didn’t want to cut my fingers off. I always see that on the news, people hurt themselves when it’s hovering or whatever and their hand gets caught in it,” said the 22-year-old Thalblum, a sixth-year bat boy. “I tried to catch it by the bottom and it…
