ATLANTA – Saturday night’s Yankees-Braves game turned tragic as a fan died after falling from the upper deck at Turner Field during the seventh inning.
The fan plummeted from Section 401, landing roughly 50 feet below on the stairway separating Sections 201 and 202.
According to a source, those two sections were heavily occupied by family members and friends of both the Yankees and Braves.
“Children from (the Braves’ players) were so close, they could have touched him,” the source said.
Atlanta police said the unidentified man was in his 60s and died upon arrival at Grady Memorial Hospital.
The incident occurred in the top of the seventh with one out as Alex Rodriguez was stepping to the plate as a pinch-hitter, drawing a chorus of loud boos from the crowd of 49,243 – the largest of the season at the ballpark. A fan wearing a Yankees jersey in Section 401 told ESPN.com that the fan was screaming at A-Rod before losing his balance and falling over the railing.
“When they called A-Rod coming to bat, he got all excited, and his momentum took him over (the railing),” fan Marty Burns told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
An awful disturbing trend...
