"We are deeply saddened to learn that the man who fell died as a result of this tragic accident," Rangers president / CEO of Nolan Ryan said in a statement. "Our thoughts and prayers are with his family."
Rangers closed the club in the media after their 6-0 victory. They have not released the name of the fan, because they are not sure if all family members were notified. The young son of fan participation game with him.
The left field wall is 14 feet in height and the fan went headfirst over the railing, which is several feet above, approximately 20-foot fall. There was an audible gasp in the stands when the man fell overboard, eerily similar to the accident in July last year, when the man fell about 30 feet from the second deck of seats down the right field line, trying to catch the ball foul. The area where the man fell Thursday from sight of field.fter game, the team, including Hamilton, were told what had happened.
"I think like any of us would be, Josh is very distraught over this, as the whole team," said Ryan. Ryan added that the Rangers "a very heavy heart about it."
Rangers manager Ron Washington said: "Josh is fine - outside, he's fine, I think he has to deal with it differently.".
Washington said that will decide on Friday whether Hamilton needs a day off after what happened Thursday night.
Small fan said that he had talked with the man earlier in the game and that he was a fireman in Brownwood, but does not know his name.
"I tried to grab him, but I can not," said Hargis, a 50-year-old from Hawley, Texas, who was sitting next to fall fan. "I tried to slow it down a bit. He went straight down."
Several fans, including Safawna Dunn, said paramedics quickly arrived at the fan and took him off on a stretcher.
"He was conscious," says Dunn.
Visitor bullpen in the stadium in left center field. Athletics reliever Brad Ziegler was in tears after the game, when he found a man dead.
"They have him on a stretcher. He said:" Please check on my son. My son has been there himself. "People who make it from the pacified him." Sir, we have received your son, we will make sure he is well, "said Ziegler." He had his hands waving. He spoke and felt. We hypothesized that it is in order. But when you find out that he does not, it's just hard. "The incident took place one year and one day after a fan fell from the club level and landed on the lower deck, 30-foot drop. This man, Tyler Morris, was taken to a local hospital after the game was stopped for 16 minutes to get him out of the stadium. Morris, coincidentally, as well as a firefighter, suffered a fractured skull and dislocated his ankle and went home two days after his fall.
Fall on Thursday for the third fan on one of the rails. The first was April 11, 1994, after the Rangers' first home game at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. Hollye Minter, a 28-year-old from Plano, Texas, posed for photographs and fell from the railing in right field. She landed on empty seats, and According to various reports, broke her arm, two ribs and several bones in his neck.
Club officials said the railings were raised after that game from 30.5 inches to 46 inches at the top and bottom areas of the park.
After Morris was injured last year, he called the incident "is 100 percent, the overall chance that could happen to anyone." He said that he did not blame Rangers or football field.
Ryan said it was too early to talk about the two accidents, and that the evaluation team may be about fencing in the stadium.
"Today, we are not ready to talk about something more than an accident and tragedy," said Ryan. "That's where I'm going to leave it."
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