A person fell from the 21-foot-high Clemente Wall in right field at PNC Park, prompting what would have seemed like a wonderful seventh-inning march by the Pittsburgh Pirates on Wednesday evening, which immediately turned into a picture of anxiety and silence.
Andrew McCutchen hit a two-run twice that gave the Pirates a 4-3 lead over the Chicago Cubs moments before the fall. However, as the crowd cheered and the players celebrated, the focus immediately turned to the warning trail, where the person lay motionless after falling over the outfield wall.
Athletes from both groups waved for immediate medical attention. The officiating crew was soon alerted by Pirates director Derek Shelton and Young director Craig Counsell. Shelton said,” The way he went over and then just laid there, even though it’s 350 feet apart, was awful. ” That’s an understatement,” they say.
Before the man was carefully loaded onto a vehicle and taken off the area, trainers from both groups and venue staff watched for almost five minutes. Eventually, the Pirates claimed that he had been taken to Allegheny General Hospital. His problem is still undetermined.
McCutchen was seen praying alongside friends while wearing a bridge from his collar. People in the Cubs sat down and bowed their heads. From the search on Counsell’s experience, I knew it was significant, said Cubs bowler Dansby Swanson,” I didn’t see it happen, but from the look on his face, I knew it was severe.” ” I’ve always been a piece of something like that. I’m hoping I’ll always be that way again.
The event brought back painful memories of past facility tragedies, including the 2011 dying of a Texas Rangers lover reaching for a game and the 2015 drop of a Braves fan at Turner Field. Fans continue to suffer steep drops at sporting venues despite those earlier warnings.
Although the atmosphere inside PNC Park never fully recovered, the play resumed.
According to Swanson,” Fans are why we get to do what we love.” Even in a ballpark, tonight served as a brutal reminder of how fragile life can be.
