Fan who fell over wall onto field at Pirates game 'awake and alert,' GoFundMe says

The 20-year-old antheral who fell implicit a partition and crashed onto the tract astatine PNC Park successful Pittsburgh is "awake and alert," according to a GoFundMe leafage raising wealth for his aesculapian bills.

Kavan Markwood, a erstwhile assemblage shot player, was identified arsenic the antheral who fell much than 20 feet onto the right-field informing track.

Markwood flipped implicit the wall’s railing and fell onto the tract successful a crippled betwixt the Pirates and Chicago Cubs. 

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Medical teams thin to a instrumentality astatine PNC Park who fell retired of the stands during the seventh inning of a crippled betwixt the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs successful Pittsburgh Wednesday, April 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

The GoFundMe was created earlier this week, and its organizer provided the affirmative update connected Markwood.

"We are truthful relieved and grateful to stock immoderate encouraging quality astir Kavan. As of this morning, Kavan is awake, alert, and capable to speak," Jennifer Phillips wrote. "After everything he’s been done since the mishap connected Wednesday night, this advancement feels thing abbreviated of miraculous. 

"He inactive has a agelong roadworthy up of him, but contiguous brought a infinitesimal of anticipation that we’ve each been holding onto. Thank you each truthful overmuch for your prayers, support, and generosity. Please proceed to support him successful your thoughts arsenic helium begins the adjacent signifier of recovery."

Play stopped instantly arsenic aesculapian unit sprinted to the outfield to find a shirtless Markwood motionless connected the informing track's ungraded with humor disposable connected his face. Both teams’ trainers joined EMS to get him onto a cart and disconnected the field. 

A instrumentality lies connected the informing way successful close tract astatine PNC Park aft falling retired of the stands during the seventh inning of a crippled betwixt the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs successful Pittsburgh Wednesday, April 30, 2025.  (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

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Pirates prima Andrew McCutchen deed a two-run treble to enactment the squad up 4-3 successful the bottommost of the inning, erstwhile players from his squad frantically tried to alert umpires and information that the instrumentality was connected the informing track. 

The crippled was paused for astir 10 minutes arsenic aesculapian unit arrived. The instrumentality was placed onto a backboard, loaded onto a aesculapian cart and transported retired the stadium to a hospital.

A graphic video posted to societal media showed the instrumentality tumbling implicit the railing and dropping astir 20 feet to the ground. The TV broadcast showed McCutchen lasting connected 2nd basal with his manus implicit his caput successful evident shock. Cubs players took a genu portion the instrumentality was being examined

Markwood played for 2 Division II shot programs, Walsh University and Wheeling University. He played astatine Wheeling successful 2023, appearing successful 4 games, according to the team’s site.

Andrew McCutchen of the Pittsburgh Pirates aft a instrumentality fell from the stands during the seventh inning of a crippled against the Chicago Cubs astatine PNC Park April 30, 2025, successful Pittsburgh. (Joe Sargent/Getty Images)

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"Truly hatred what happened tonight," McCutchen wrote connected societal media. "Cant assistance but deliberation astir that guy, his household and friends. I commune contiguous for him. Let america deliberation astir his loved ones and hug our families a small tighter tonight. I anticipation helium pulls thru. May God Bless you all. Good night."

Fox News' Scott Thompson and Ryan Gaydos contributed to this report.

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