{"id":52225,"date":"2025-05-01T10:55:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T10:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=52225"},"modified":"2025-05-01T10:55:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T10:55:37","slug":"deadspin-fan-falls-21-feet-onto-warning-track-during-cubs-pirates-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=52225","title":{"rendered":"Deadspin | Fan falls 21 feet onto warning track during Cubs-Pirates game"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.deadspin.com\/tr:w-900\/26056548.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.deadspin.com\/tr:w-900\/26056548.jpg\" alt=\"Deadspin | Fan falls 21 feet onto warning track during Cubs-Pirates game\" \/>Apr 30, 2025; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; Stadium security and Pittsburgh Pirates medical personnel rush to assist a fan who fell from the stands to the field as the Pirates batted against the Chicago Cubs during the seventh inningat PNC Park. Mandatory Credit: Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-1\">A fan attending the Wednesday game between the Chicago Cubs and Pittsburgh Pirates fell out of the right field stands during the seventh inning and landed on the PNC Park warning track 21 feet below.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-2\">The game was delayed for 10 minutes while paramedics and the teams&#8217; trainers strapped the fan to a backboard and carted him off the field.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-3\">Multiple Cubs on the field spent the delay taking a knee and offering prayers for the unidentified fan, who grabbed the railing in front of him with two hands, flipped out of the bleachers and hit the ground with his upper body while a seventh-inning double by Pittsburgh&#8217;s Andrew McCutchen was in play.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<section id=\"section-4\">The Pirates provided a statement shortly after the home team completed a 4-3 win over the Cubs.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-5\">&#8220;Tonight, during the seventh inning of the game at PNC Park, an adult male fell from the right field bleachers onto the field of play.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-6\">&#8220;Pittsburgh EMS, as well as the Pirates and Cubs athletic training teams and other PNC Park personnel, reacted and responded immediately and administered care. 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No further information is available at this time.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-7\">&#8220;Our thoughts and prayers are with him and his family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<section id=\"section-8\">&#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deadspin | Fan falls 21 feet onto warning track during Cubs-Pirates game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":52226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Deadspin | Fan falls 21 feet onto warning track during Cubs-Pirates game - NEWS USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=52225\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Deadspin | Fan falls 21 feet onto warning track during Cubs-Pirates game - 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