Angels nine-time Gold Glove-winning right fielder Torii Hunter returned to his Newport Beach home from Wednesday morning workouts at Dodger Stadium and settled in for a movie on the couch when he heard someone fiddling with his front door.
“I grabbed a knife and was about to start Bruce-Lee-ing on whoever was there,” Hunter said.
Good thing Hunter didn’t take the steak knife outside, where police were waiting with guns drawn after the outfielder’s home alarm had accidentally been activated by a door that was opened in the house.
“They said, ‘Put your hands up!’ ” said Hunter. “I’m like, ‘Man, this is my home!’ They asked me questions about who I was. They asked me to go upstairs and get my I.D. The guns were out. I was a prisoner in my own home.”
Hunter said after he handed over the identification and confirmed his middle name, “Kedar,” he told the officers he was an Angels’ player.
“They said they go to a lot of games, and I’m looking at them like, ‘Come on, man,’ ” Hunter said. “It was funny, but not too funny, kind of scary. If I went outside with that knife, I might’ve died.
“But they did what they were supposed to, protected my home and did everything right. It was just an … awkward moment.”