With two outs in the eighth inning Monday, Holliday began trotting in from left field as starter Chris Carpenter prepared to make a pitch. Holliday was grimacing and tugging at his right ear, as if he had just been stung by a hornet. Close. A moth had flown into his ear and become lodged there, fluttering around, buzzing and wiggling in his ear canal.

Holliday was removed from the game and taken to a dark room, where the Cardinals’ trainers hoped they could lure the moth out of the ear with a bright light. When that didn’t work, trainer Greg Hauck grabbed some tweezers and prepared for a real-life game of Operation. According to a club official who spoke with Hauck, the Cardinals head trainer had pulled a moth out of an ear before in his career, back in the minor leagues.

– Derrick Goold, STLToday.com.

Wait a minute, that has happened more than once?