{"id":676672,"date":"2026-04-16T02:52:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/676672\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T02:52:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:52:34","slug":"singer-collapses-before-white-sox-game-against-rays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/676672\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer collapses before White Sox game against Rays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 A singer leading the \u201cJackie Robinson Day\u201d festivities before the Chicago White Sox\u2019s game against the Tampa Bay Rays on Wednesday night collapsed and was taken to a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The White Sox said Gerald Chaney, a longtime anthem performer, was alert before being taken to the hospital after he collapsed while performing \u201cLift Every Voice and Sing.\u201d He was a few words into the hymn considered the Black national anthem when he stopped. He started again and collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency medical technicians tended to Chaney for several minutes before he was loaded onto a gurney and taken from the field. The teams watched from their dugouts. <\/p>\n<p>Chaney was also scheduled to sing \u201cThe Star Spangled Banner\u201d after performing \u201cLift Every Voice and Sing.\u201d The start of the game was delayed 12 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe entire White Sox family is sending love to Gerald and his family for a full and speedy recovery,\u201d the team said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 A singer leading the \u201cJackie Robinson Day\u201d festivities before the Chicago White Sox\u2019s game against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,138,49,85721,4290,182,85715,1726,5163,11368,4,256,185,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-676672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-white-sox","11":"tag-emergency-care","12":"tag-fl-state-wire","13":"tag-florida","14":"tag-gerald-chaney","15":"tag-il-state-wire","16":"tag-illinois","17":"tag-jackie-robinson","18":"tag-mlb","19":"tag-mlb-baseball","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-tampa-bay-rays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116412126690224046","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676672","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=676672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}