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The 20 -year -old who fell on a wall and crashed into the field in PNC Park in Pittsburgh is “awake and alert,” according to a Gofundme page that collects money for his medical bills.
Kavan Markwood, a former university soccer player, was identified as man who fell more than 20 feet on the warning track of the right field.
Markwood turned the railing of the wall and fell into the field in a game between the Pirates and the Chicago puppies.
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Medical teams tend to a fan in PNC Park who fell from the stands during the seventh entry of a game between Pittsburgh pirates and Chicago puppies in Pittsburgh on Wednesday, April 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
The Gofundme was created earlier this week, and its organizer provided the positive update about Markwood.
“We are very relieved and grateful to share some encouraging news about Kavan. Until this morning, Kavan is awake, alert and capable of speaking,” Jennifer Phillips wrote. “After everything that has happened since the accident on Wednesday night, this progress feels nothing less than miraculous.
“It still has a long way ahead, but today it brought a moment of hope that we have all been clinging. Thank you very much for their prayers, support and generosity. He continues to keep him in his thoughts while the next phase of recovery begins.”
The game stopped immediately when the medical staff ran to the garden to find a Markwood without a motionless shirt on the earth of the warning with visible blood on his face. The coaches of both teams joined EMS to take it to a cart and off the field.
A fan is on the warning track in the right garden in PNC Park after falling from the stands during the seventh entry of a game between the Pittsburgh pirates and the Chicago puppies in Pittsburgh on Wednesday, April 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
The referee curses in the hot microphone after missing call
The Pirate Star, Andrew McCutchen, hit a double two races to put the 4-3 team at the bottom of the entrance, when the players of their team frantically tried to alert the referees and the assurance that the fan was on the warning track.
The game stopped for about 10 minutes when medical staff arrived. The fan was placed on a board, charged in a medical cart and transported the stadium to a hospital.
TO Graphic video Published in social networks showed that the fan fell on the railing and fell about 20 feet to the ground. The TV transmission showed McCutchen standing on the second base with his hand on his head in apparent shock. The puppies players knelt while the fan was being examined
Markwood played for two soccer programs of Division II, Walsh University and Wheeling University. He played at Wheeling in 2023, appearing in four games, according to the team’s site.
Andrew McCutchen, from Pittsburgh’s pirates, after a fan fell from the stands during the seventh entry of a game against Chicago puppies in PNC Park on April 30, 2025 in Pittsburgh. (Joe Sargent/Getty images)
“I really hate what happened tonight,” McCutchen wrote on social networks. “I can’t help thinking about that guy, his family and friends. I pray tonight.
