{"id":676723,"date":"2026-04-16T04:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T04:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/676723\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T04:46:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T04:46:00","slug":"chicago-white-sox-anthem-singer-hospitalized-after-collapsing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/676723\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago White Sox: Anthem singer hospitalized after collapsing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime Chicago White Sox anthem performer Gerald Chaney was hospitalized Wednesday evening after collapsing while singing \u201cLift Every Voice and Sing\u201d before a game against the Tampa Bay Rays at Rate Field.<\/p>\n<p>Chaney was treated by EMTs on the field and was alert, the White Sox said, after experiencing the medical emergency. He was transported to a nearby hospital for treatment and observation, the team said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe entire White Sox family is sending love to Gerald and his family for a full and speedy recovery,\u201d the Sox said as part of an update <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/whitesox\/status\/2044574250523066827\" rel=\"nofollow\">on social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was warming up (in the bullpen) so I kind of just saw what you guys all saw, kind of saw him go down,\u201d Sox starter Sean Burke said after the game. \u201cThey said he\u2019s doing well at the hospital now so hopefully he\u2019s going to make a full recovery from that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an update, the Sox said Chaney \u201cis doing well as he continues to recover and undergo evaluation at the hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScary stuff and really just hopeful that he was all right,\u201d Sox manager Will Venable said after the game. \u201cI was really glad to hear that he is doing well, but obviously a scary moment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Longtime Chicago White Sox anthem performer Gerald Chaney was hospitalized Wednesday evening after collapsing while singing \u201cLift Every&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[85746,5,138,49,2561,85715,85747,4,8567,68,396,2562],"class_list":{"0":"post-676723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-white-sox","8":"tag-anthem-singer","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-chicago-white-sox","12":"tag-chicagowhitesox","13":"tag-gerald-chaney","14":"tag-medical-emergency","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-rate-field","17":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","18":"tag-white-sox","19":"tag-whitesox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116412572291080189","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676723","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=676723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}