DETAILS about the moments before a baseball fan plunged 20 feet at a Pirates game have come to light.
Horrifying video from the scene showed a man quickly standing up and falling over the stands onto the baseball field at PNC Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday night.
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A fan was carted off the field at PNC Park after falling out of the stands on Wednesday nightAP
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The unnamed man is now fighting for his life at the hospital following the terrifying scene, the Pittsburgh Police Department said on Thursday morning.
Cops deemed the fall an accident in an update and declined to comment further when approached by The U.S. Sun.
But someone claiming to have been at the game has now shed more light about the moments leading up to the heart-stopping accident.
A person who said they were sitting five rows behind the man who fell claimed that he was drunk at the game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs.
During the inning before, the man reportedly “ripped his shirt off and poured beer all over himself,” the witness said.
“He jumped up from his seat when the Pirates got the hit,” the attendee recalled.
“He jumped up so quick, while being drunk, he literally propelled himself off the ledge.”
The attendee added, “He didn’t do it on purpose and no one pushed him.”
The witness reported the man was at the game with his girlfriend, a friend, and another woman.
“The friend ran to the lower deck in centerfield and jumped on the field,” the attendee said.
They added that the man was reportedly taken to a local hospital with a skull fracture.
The witness’s account has not been confirmed. The fan who fell has not been identified.
Cops are still investigating the accident.
“This incident is being treated as accidental in nature,” Pittsburgh Public Safety said in a statement on X on Thursday morning.
“The patient remains in critical condition at the hospital.”
Statement from Pittsburgh Pirates
The Pittsburgh Pirates shared a statement after a fan fell from the stands during their game agains the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday night.
“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,” the team said.
“Pittsburgh EMS, as well as the Pirates and Cubs athletic training teams and other PNC Park personnel reacted and responded immediately and administered care.
“He was transported to Allegheny General Hospital. No further information is available at this time. Our thoughts and prayers are with him and his family.”
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Cops said they don’t expect to give any more updates to the public.
The seventh inning of the game was paused when the fan fell off the Clemente wall on the right field warning track.
Athletes and game attendees demanded the teams stop playing while emergency medical staff rushed to the man, who lay motionless on the side of the field.
Players on the field seemed visibly shaken as they took knees and waited for the man to be carted off the field as he was rushed to the hospital.
Pirates manager Derek Shelton later thanked medical staff for acting quickly during the scary scene.
“Even though it’s 350 feet away or whatever it is, the fact of how it went down and then laying motionless while the play is going on,” Shelton said after the game.
“It’s extremely unfortunate. I mean, that’s an understatement.”
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