{"id":4177,"date":"2025-05-06T04:22:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T04:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/4177\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T04:22:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T04:22:13","slug":"pirates-fan-takes-first-steps-since-horrific-fall-during-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/4177\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates Fan Takes First Steps Since Horrific Fall During Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Pirates Fan Kavan Markwood<br \/>\n                          Takes First Steps Since Fall<\/p>\n<p>\n                        Published May 5, 2025 3:25 PM PDT\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20250505_3797d994729e485aa5f470361b72dd3b\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:365b16da-d6d4-49c7-a335-41e1955d8257\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/3797d994729e485aa5f470361b72dd3b_md.jpg\" alt=\"Kavan-markwood-ig-1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh Pirates fan Kavan Markwood is making strides in his recovery &#8230; as he took his first steps since last week&#8217;s terrifying incident at PNC Park, his loved ones announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The update was posted on the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/help-a-young-life-pnc-park-tragedy-fund?modal=donations&amp;tab=top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> GoFundMe <\/a>page created to raise money for his medical bills and the &#8220;financial hardships that this family is experiencing right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20250501_f8a2c03df15745698b558afa11c859f5\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:365b16da-d6d4-49c7-a335-41e1955d8257\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/f8a2c03df15745698b558afa11c859f5_md.jpg\" alt=\"mlb pirates fan carted off field getty 2\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Phillips &#8212; the fundraiser&#8217;s organizer &#8212; shared the news of Kavan regaining the ability to walk &#8230; saying, &#8220;Seeing him up and moving was a huge win and definitely lifted everyone&#8217;s spirits.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This is another step in the right direction after the family said on Saturday Kavan was awake, alert and able to speak.<\/p>\n<p>Phillips shared he is dealing with a broken neck, clavicle and back as a result of the fall he took on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The incident <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/04\/30\/mlb-fan-injured-fall-outfield-wall-pirates-cubs-game\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unfolded<\/a> during the seventh inning of the Pirates vs. Cubs matchup &#8230; when the 20-year-old tumbled over the right field wall onto the warning track.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20250501_5c91deceda9d4c1ab7cdbaba296604e1\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:365b16da-d6d4-49c7-a335-41e1955d8257\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/5c91deceda9d4c1ab7cdbaba296604e1_md.jpg\" alt=\"Kavan Markwood cardinals sub swipe\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trainers raced out to tend to Markwood &#8230; and he was rushed to a nearby hospital.<\/p>\n<p>It was later revealed he was an ex-college football player &#8230; and a star during his days in the South Allegheny School District.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone at South Allegheny would say he is a hard-working, highly resilient young man,&#8221; the district rep, Laura Thomson, said last week. &#8220;He&#8217;s a fighter. He&#8217;s going to need that resiliency now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Pirates took a moment before the national anthem to acknowledge what happened last evening, provide a statement from owner Bob Nutting and thank the first responders who helped assist the injured fan. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/u2bP0dzQgm\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/u2bP0dzQgm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Noah Hiles (@_NoahHiles) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_NoahHiles\/status\/1917980296735003050?ref_src=twsrc^tfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 1, 2025<\/a><br \/>\n              <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_NoahHiles\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">@_NoahHiles<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Pirates offered their thoughts and prayers to Markwood &#8230; while also thanking the medical personnel who quickly rushed to help him.<\/p>\n<p>To date, the fundraiser has raised over $40,000, just shy of its goal.<\/p>\n<p>      <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pirates Fan Kavan Markwood Takes First Steps Since Fall Published May 5, 2025 3:25 PM PDT Pittsburgh Pirates&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,169,185,317,1564],"class_list":{"0":"post-4177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-sports-news","12":"tag-tmz-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114458981534189861","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}