{"id":62067,"date":"2025-05-28T20:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T20:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/62067\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T20:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T20:40:10","slug":"detroit-tigers-grounds-crew-member-injured-during-seventh-inning-stretch-at-comerica-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/62067\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Tigers grounds crew member injured during seventh-inning stretch at Comerica Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">DETROIT \u2013 A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickondetroit.com\/topic\/Detroit_Tigers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.clickondetroit.com\/topic\/Detroit_Tigers\/\">Detroit Tigers<\/a> grounds crew member was carted off the field ahead of the eighth inning of their matchup vs. the San Francisco Giants inside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickondetroit.com\/topic\/Comerica_Park\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.clickondetroit.com\/topic\/Comerica_Park\/\">Comerica Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The injury occurred on Wednesday (May 28) during the seventh-inning stretch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">From the broadcast, it looked like the member stumbled before suffering a leg injury while raking the infield ahead of the eighth inning in front of the Giants\u2019 dugout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The Giants sent out their trainers as the man was in great disbelief. EMS was called to the field for medical attention as the game was delayed for a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Members of the Tigers\u2019 ground crew play a major part in the team\u2019s success as they keep the diamond prepared for a ball game.<\/p>\n<p>A Detroit Tigers grounds crew member was carted off the field ahead of the eighth inning of their matchup vs. the San Francisco Giants inside Comerica Park. (Copyright 2025 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit &#8211; All rights reserved.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">For instance, when a hard-hit ball is hit and takes an infield hop, they want the field to be perfect so the players can make a clean play in the game for the guys playing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Tigers assistant athletic trainer Chris McDonald attended to the man and began treating the injured crew member\u2019s left leg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">After some assistance, the grounds crew member got up as the medical team got him to the cart and took him off the field.<\/p>\n<p>A Detroit Tigers grounds crew member was carted off the field ahead of the eighth inning of their matchup vs. the San Francisco Giants inside Comerica Park. (Copyright 2025 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit &#8211; All rights reserved.)<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT \u2013 A Detroit Tigers grounds crew member was carted off the field ahead of the eighth inning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386],"tags":[5,7214,147,53,2583,4,594],"class_list":{"0":"post-62067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-tigers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-comerica-park","10":"tag-detroit","11":"tag-detroit-tigers","12":"tag-detroittigers","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-tigers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114587397353637471","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62067","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=62067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}