Yankees trainer explains pulling ‘crazy,’ ‘huge’ moth from umpire’s ear

Yankees trainer Steve Donohue pulled a giant month out of umpire Bruce Dreckman’s left ear Wednesday night.

NEW YORK — Yankees trainer Steve Donohue has seen plenty of wild things in his 30 years with the organization.

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Wednesday night was something else.

Donohue had to help second base umpire Bruce Dreckman yank a giant moth out of his left ear in the ninth inning of a 7-3 win over the White Sox in Chicago.

Donohue broke it down while with the YES Network’s Meredith Marakovits.

#Yankees trainer Steve Donohue recounts the harrowing tale of pulling a giant moth out of the ear of MLB umpire Bruce Dreckman. pic.twitter.com/vPgOaynCBm
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Take us through it …

Well, the umpire, at first I didn’t see him. And then someone said, Hey, the umpire is coming this way, you better go try and help him out and I didn’t know what was wrong with him. And he says, ‘A bug just flew into my ear!’ Naturally, I’m expecting a small gnat or a mosquito or something. so I tried with a cotton-tip applicator and nothing is coming out and he’s like, you got tweezers? I’m like, All right, let’s get them. I got them out of the kit and I started in there a little bit and I was like, ‘Look, you might want to try this yourself because I don’t want to dig too deep. He tried it, he started feeling something, I helped him get it out. I don’t know if he was “Bats in the Bellfrey,” but that was a big moth, I’m going to tell you. This thing was flying.

What was the reaction of the people around you in the dugout?

I can’t repeat the language. It was crazy. It was nuts. He had to be feeling terrible because this thing was big and flapping and I can’t imagine what was going on inside his head. Though, some of these umpires, I don’t know what’s going on inside their heads anyway.

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