On April 30, the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs took the field at PNC Park for a regular season match up. During the seventh inning, a fan sitting in the outfield bleachers tumbled from his seat onto the field. According to TMZ, the fall was about 20 feet.
In terrifying video shared by fans on social media, a man can be seen flipping over a few times before landing on the warning track. Within minutes, emergency personnel surrounded the man, whose body laid still on the ground. He was placed on a stretcher and transported to a nearby hospital. Both teams looked on in complete shock.
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Fans have reacted to the videos on social media.
“That dude #launched up. At one point has his foot on the railing it appears, as if bracing his body weight for a jump onto the field. Maybe was leaning over, or extra excited and slipped — but all of it looks extremely irregular. Prayers with him. All the way, regardless,” one person commented on a the video shared from the game.
“I’ve seen people fall, that didn’t look like a fall…dude looked like he was ejected from his seat,” someone else said.
In a close up shot, the man lay still on a stretcher with blood on his face and his eyes closed.
“Tonight, during the seventh inning of the game at PNC Park, an adult male fell from the right field bleachers onto the field of play,” the Pirates said in a statement posted on X. “Pittsburgh EMS, as well as the Pirates and Cubs athletic training teams and other PNC Park personnel reacted and responded immediately and administered care. He was transported to Allegheny General Hospital. No further information is available at this time. Our thoughts and prayers are with him and his family,” the team’s official statement continued.
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