PITTSBURGH – A man who fell from the Clemente wall, 21 feet high on the right field to the PNC Park during a match between the Pirates of Pittsburgh and the Chicago Cubs remained in critical condition.
Right after AndW McCutchen succeeded in two points in the seventh round to put the pirates forward 4-3, the players began to agitate frantically for the medical staff and to point the man, who had fallen on the warning track.
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The fan was tend to around five minutes by members of pirate training staff and Cubs as well as PNC staff before being removed from the field on a cart.
The team published a statement shortly after the end of the match saying that the man had been transported to the trauma center at the Algheny General Hospital.
Pittsburgh Public Safety, which includes the police and Pittsburgh’s EMS, posted on X that “the incident is treated as accidental of nature”.
The pirate manager, Derek Shelton, and the manager of Cubs Craig Counsell both alerted the crew of the referee of the situation immediately after the room.
“Even if it is 350 feet distance or anything, I mean the fact of how it happened and then go to bed motionless while the room takes place, I mean that Craig saw it, I saw it. We both arrived there,” said Shelton. “I think the referees saw him because of the way he kicked. It is extremely unhappy. It is an understatement. “
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The players of the two teams could be seen while praying and McCutchen held a cross hanging around his neck while the fan was removed from the field.
“I really hate what happened tonight,” McCutchen posted on X.
The match was arrested for several minutes while the man was maintained, but there was no official stop at stake.
“I have not seen anything happen, but I saw the face (advice) when it came out on the ground, and I could say that it was a very frightening moment,” said Cubs, in the Inby Swanson. “All we could do was to pray for a good and strong recovery for him and his family. I have never been part of something like that before and I hope that I will never be part of something like that again.
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“It is a humble reminder of gratitude that we should all have to play this game. People are obviously going out to support us, and they are a great reason why we are able to do what we do. It is obviously difficult. At a time like that, you want (fans) to know that you love them. ”
Fans have died of steep falls in baseball stadiums in the past.
In 2015, the holder of Atlanta Braves season tickets, Gregory K. Murrey, changed guard rails from the Turner Field top bridge. It was four years after Shannon Stone, a firefighter attending a match with his 6 -year -old son, fell to around 20 feet after holding his hand for a shown ball thrown into the stands of the old Texas Rangers stadium.
The two incidents caused a meticulous examination on the height of the daycare rails in the stadiums. The Rangers raised theirs, while the brave regulated a lawsuit with the Murrey family.
A spectator in an NFL match in 2022 at the Acrisure stadium in Pittsburgh died following a fall on an escalator.
