{"id":6311,"date":"2025-05-06T22:22:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T22:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/6311\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T22:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T22:22:12","slug":"pittsburgh-pirates-employee-suspended-over-role-in-wild-fistfight-with-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/6311\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Pirates Employee Suspended Over Role In Wild Fistfight With Fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Pittsburgh Pirates<br \/>\n                          Suspend Employee Over Wild Fistfight<\/p>\n<p>\n                        Published May 6, 2025 2:57 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_20250506_c8485475215a420bb2465a4cb874c682\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:592c6899-af6b-4dde-8daf-88495ef42a76\" 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\/c8485475215a420bb2465a4cb874c682_md.jpg\" alt=\"050625-pirates-fight-primary\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Pittsburgh Pirates game day employee has been suspended by the team &#8230; after he was seen on video getting involved in an absolutely insane fistfight with a fan at PNC Park.<\/p>\n<p>The violent scrum happened on Sunday &#8212; as the Buccos were taking on the Padres.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So last week the Pirates had a drunken underage idiot fall from the stands into the field. Cracked his skull. <\/p>\n<p>Last night we had an usher beat up a fan in front of women and children. Then takes his belt off and proceeds to whip the fan with it.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine if the usher was white\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2HoMdLS6v8\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/2HoMdLS6v8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Keystone Free Press (@KeystonePress1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KeystonePress1\/status\/1919735831616508269?ref_src=twsrc^tfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 6, 2025<\/a><br \/>\n              <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KeystonePress1\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">@KeystonePress1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/pirates-game-day-employee-punches-fan\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">According to CBS<\/a>, the altercation went down after a Pirates employee &#8212; who was wearing a white polo and tan pants &#8212; tried to pull two men away from a tiff they had been having with a nearby concession worker.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>You can see in the video from the scene &#8212; the Pittsburgh official and one of the men got nose-to-nose with one another &#8230; before fists started flying.<\/p>\n<p>The Pirates supporter ate a bevy of punches &#8230; and needed a second to recover. He then took off his hat, glasses and jacket, seemingly in an effort to get a more fair fight going.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20250506_733afcb30b9c41d79bb0f25b615762e8\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:592c6899-af6b-4dde-8daf-88495ef42a76\" 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\/733afcb30b9c41d79bb0f25b615762e8_md.jpg\" alt=\"050625-pirates-fight-primary-2\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>People then intervened to try to break things up &#8230; but once the fan started spitting blood on the worker &#8212; all hell broke loose again.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the footage, the Pirates employee ripped off his belt and smacked the man with it repeatedly.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20250506_8bd7049106204cd9846cce175fa699ea\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:592c6899-af6b-4dde-8daf-88495ef42a76\" 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\/8bd7049106204cd9846cce175fa699ea_md.jpg\" alt=\"050625-pirates-fight-primary-3\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mercifully, cooler heads ultimately prevailed &#8230; and police showed up to take a report.<\/p>\n<p>The Pirates called their worker&#8217;s behavior &#8220;entirely unacceptable&#8221; in a statement they released on Monday &#8230; writing, &#8220;he was immediately suspended.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This incident is currently under further investigation,&#8221; they added.<\/p>\n<p>This is, of course, the second notable incident at PNC Park this month &#8212; just last week, a fan fell from a railing and sustained significant injuries &#8230; though, thankfully, he appears to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/05\/05\/pittsburgh-pirates-fan-fall-health-update\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">doing better<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>      <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Pirates Suspend Employee Over Wild Fistfight Published May 6, 2025 2:57 PM PDT A Pittsburgh Pirates game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2402],"tags":[5,4,169,10,776,64,4297,185,317,1564],"class_list":{"0":"post-6311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-pirates","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-pirates","12":"tag-pittsburgh","13":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","14":"tag-pittsburghpirates","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-sports-news","17":"tag-tmz-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114463227740967857","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6311","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=6311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}