Horrifying moment MLB fan plunges from the stands and crashes onto field mid-game

A Pittsburgh Pirates fan is in critical condition in the hospital after falling over the right field wall on Wednesday night in a terrifying scene.

The video posted on social media shows the fan falling over the 21-foot Clemente Wall before plummeting onto the warning track.

The fan flipped while in the air before landing on his head.

Following the scary fall, medics rushed over with a stretcher as the fan lay on the ground. The fan received medical attention for about five minutes.

Photos showed that another fan appeared to follow the fall victim onto the field afterward, deliberately hopping over the wall from the first row.

Pirates icon Andrew McCutchen could be seen with his head in his hands in the immediate aftermath of the incident, and he also held a cross that hung from his neck.

Players from both teams could also be seen praying.

The game ultimately resumed after the fan was carted off the field and brought to the hospital.

Pirates manager Derek Shelton and Cubs manager Craig Counsell both alerted the umpire crew of the situation immediately after the play.

'Even though it's 350 feet away or whatever it is, I mean the fact of how it went down and then lying motionless while the play is going on, I mean Craig saw it, I saw it. We both got out there,' Shelton said. 'I think the umpires saw it because of the way it kicked. It's extremely unfortunate. That's an understatement.'

The Pirates addressed the moment in a statement after the game, writing that the fan received medical attention from both the Pirates and Cubs athletic training teams and other PNC Park personnel, who 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.'

Pittsburgh Police VCU later revealed they are investigating the incident after the spectator was left in 'critical condition.'

The moment occurred after McCutchen gave the Pirates the lead in the bottom of the seventh inning. Pittsburgh would go on to win the game 4-3.

In 2015, Atlanta Braves season ticket holder Gregory K. Murrey flipped over guard rails from the upper deck at Turner Field.

That was four years after Shannon Stone, a firefighter attending a game with his 6-year-old son, fell about 20 feet after reaching out for a foul ball tossed into the stands at the Texas Rangers´ former stadium.

Both incidents prompted scrutiny over the height of guardrails in stadiums. The Rangers raised theirs, while the Braves settled a lawsuit with Murrey´s family.

A spectator at a 2022 NFL game at Pittsburgh´s Acrisure Stadium died following a fall on an escalator.