diff --git a/sql/src/main/java/io/druid/sql/avatica/DruidStatement.java b/sql/src/main/java/io/druid/sql/avatica/DruidStatement.java
index c8ae0db62fe..a1ef27e731f 100644
--- a/sql/src/main/java/io/druid/sql/avatica/DruidStatement.java
+++ b/sql/src/main/java/io/druid/sql/avatica/DruidStatement.java
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ package io.druid.sql.avatica;
 import com.google.common.base.Preconditions;
 import com.google.common.base.Throwables;
 import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
+import io.druid.concurrent.Execs;
 import io.druid.java.util.common.ISE;
 import io.druid.java.util.common.guava.Sequence;
 import io.druid.java.util.common.guava.Sequences;
@@ -42,6 +43,7 @@ import java.sql.DatabaseMetaData;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
 
 /**
  * Statement handle for {@link DruidMeta}. Thread-safe.
@@ -64,6 +66,23 @@ public class DruidStatement implements Closeable
   private final Runnable onClose;
   private final Object lock = new Object();
 
+  /**
+   * Query metrics can only be used within a single thread. Because results can be paginated into multiple
+   * JDBC frames (each frame being processed by a potentially different thread), the thread that closes the yielder
+   * (resulting in a QueryMetrics emit() call) may not be the same thread that created the yielder (which initializes
+   * DefaultQueryMetrics with the current thread as the owner). Create and close the yielder with this
+   * single-thread executor to prevent this from happening.
+   *
+   * The thread owner check in DefaultQueryMetrics is more aggressive than needed for this specific JDBC case, since
+   * the JDBC frames are processed sequentially. If the thread owner check is changed/loosened to permit this use case,
+   * we would not need to use this executor.
+   *
+   * See discussion at:
+   * https://github.com/druid-io/druid/pull/4288
+   * https://github.com/druid-io/druid/pull/4415
+   */
+  private final ExecutorService yielderOpenCloseExecutor;
+
   private State state = State.NEW;
   private String query;
   private long maxRowCount;
@@ -83,6 +102,9 @@ public class DruidStatement implements Closeable
     this.statementId = statementId;
     this.queryContext = queryContext == null ? ImmutableMap.of() : queryContext;
     this.onClose = Preconditions.checkNotNull(onClose, "onClose");
+    this.yielderOpenCloseExecutor = Execs.singleThreaded(
+        String.format("JDBCYielderOpenCloseExecutor-connection-%s-statement-%d", connectionId, statementId)
+    );
   }
 
   public static List<ColumnMetaData> createColumnMetaData(final RelDataType rowType)
@@ -166,7 +188,9 @@ public class DruidStatement implements Closeable
       ensure(State.PREPARED);
 
       try {
-        final Sequence<Object[]> baseSequence = plannerResult.run();
+        final Sequence<Object[]> baseSequence = yielderOpenCloseExecutor.submit(
+            () -> plannerResult.run()
+        ).get();
 
         // We can't apply limits greater than Integer.MAX_VALUE, ignore them.
         final Sequence<Object[]> retSequence =
@@ -184,7 +208,7 @@ public class DruidStatement implements Closeable
         catch (Throwable t1) {
           t.addSuppressed(t1);
         }
-        throw t;
+        throw Throwables.propagate(t);
       }
 
       return this;
@@ -286,7 +310,15 @@ public class DruidStatement implements Closeable
           this.yielder = null;
 
           // Put the close last, so any exceptions it throws are after we did the other cleanup above.
-          theYielder.close();
+          yielderOpenCloseExecutor.submit(
+              () -> {
+                theYielder.close();
+                // makes this a Callable instead of Runnable so we don't need to catch exceptions inside the lambda
+                return null;
+              }
+          ).get();
+
+          yielderOpenCloseExecutor.shutdownNow();
         }
       }
       catch (Throwable t) {