20-Year-Old Man Who Fell to Warning Track at Pirates Game Is Awake

Markwood can speak and encouraged others to support him during his “next phase of recovery.”

A fan is carted off the field at PNC Park after falling out of the stands during the seventh inning of a baseball game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs in Pittsburgh on April 30, 2025. Gene J. Puskar/AP Photo

PITTSBURGH—The man who fell from the top of a 21-foot-high wall onto the warning track at PNC Park during a game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday night is awake and alert.

The organizer of a GoFundMe page for Kavan Markwood, the 20-year-old who slipped off a railing and onto the field during the seventh inning of Pittsburgh’s 4–3 win over the Cubs, shared an update Saturday that Markwood is improving.