Article: Fan tumbles, briefly Cardinals-Pirates game

PITTSBURGH -- The Cardinals-Pirates game was stopped for about 10 minutes in the seventh inning Friday night when a fan tumbled onto the field and cut his forehead while trying to catch a foul ground ball.

The man was sitting in a front-row, field-level box behind first base when he leaned over and tried to flag down Pirates batter Garrett Jones' hard-hit foul ground ball.

The ball did not strike him, but the fan lost his balance as he leaned far over the railing -- which is about 3 feet high -- and he landed face-first onto the mostly clay track ...

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