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04/30 20:40 CDT Fan falls from 21-foot Clemente Wall at PNC Park in Pittsburgh
during Cubs-Pirates game
Fan falls from 21-foot Clemente Wall at PNC Park in Pittsburgh during
Cubs-Pirates game
PITTSBURGH (AP) --- An unidentified male fan fell from the 21-foot Clemente
Wall in right field at PNC Park during Wednesday night's game between the
Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs.
Right after Andrew McCutchen hit a two-run double in the seventh inning to put
the Pirates ahead 4-3, players began waving frantically for medical personnel
and pointing to the man, who had fallen onto the warning track.
The fan was tended to for approximately five minutes by members of both the
Pirates and Cubs training staffs as well as PNC personnel before being removed
from the field on a cart.
The team issued a statement shortly after the game ended saying the man was
transported to Allegheny General Hospital. No further details were given.
Players from both teams could be seen praying and McCutchen held a cross that
hung from his neck while the fan was taken off the field. The game was paused
for several minutes while the man was tended to but there was no official
stoppage in play.
Fans have died from steep falls at baseball stadiums.
In 2015, Atlanta Braves season ticket holder Gregory K. Murrey flipped over
guard rails from the upper deck at Turner Field. That was four years after
Shannon Stone, a firefighter attending a game with his 6-year-old son, fell
about 20 feet after reaching out for a foul ball tossed into the stands at the
Texas Rangers' former stadium.
Both incidents prompted scrutiny over the height of guard rails at stadiums.
The Rangers raised theirs, while the Braves settled a lawsuit with Murrey's
family.
A spectator at a 2022 NFL game at Pittsburgh's Acrisure Stadium died following
a fall on an escalator.
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