MLB Fan's Shocking Fall at Pirates vs. Cubs Game

 

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania — A man was taken to the hospital Wednesday night after he fell more than 20 feet from the outfield stands during a Major League Baseball game at PNC Park, reports say.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports the man fell from the 21-foot Clemente wall onto the warning track in right field during the seventh inning of the Pirates game against the Chicago Cubs. Shocked players and coaches immediately called for the game to be stopped so the man could be helped, the Post-Gazette reports.

Training staffs from both teams tended to the man for about five minutes before he was carted off the field. The team issued a statement shortly after the game ended saying the man was transported to Allegheny General Hospital.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with him and his family,” the statement says.

Pirates manager Derek Shelton and Cubs manager Craig Counsell both alerted the umpire crew of the situation immediately after the play.

“Even though it’s 350 feet away or whatever it is, I mean the fact of how it went down and then laying motionless while the play is going on, I mean Craig saw it, I saw it. We both got out there,” Shelton said. ”I think the umpires saw it because of the way it kicked. It’s extremely unfortunate. That’s an understatement.”

It’s unclear how the man fell from the wall, reports say.

(The Associated Press contributed to this story.)

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