A Washington Nationals staff member collapsed on the field just hours before the team’s matchup against the Philadelphia Phillies on Wednesday night.
Nationals batting practice pitcher James Frisbie fell to the turf in worrying scenes at Philadelphia’s Citizens Bank Park, before being taken off the field on a stretcher and taken to hospital.
A photo posted to X by NBC Sports Philadelphia’s John Clark showed people crowding around the staffer after his collapse during the pregame warmups.
The rest of the Nationals team reportedly left the field as well at that time.
DailyMail.com initially reached out to Washington for comment, with a spokesperson indicating that there were no updates to at the time.
The game still went ahead as planned, with Philadelphia claiming a 7-2 win, before Spencer Nusbaum of the Washington Post confirmed Frisbie is now ‘coherent and feeling better’ after being taken to hospital.
A Washington Nationals staff member collapsed on the field hours before a game Wednesday
Batting practice pitcher James Frisbie is now ‘coherent and feeling better’ at the hospital
‘Just waiting on the results. We’ll see what they are and hopefully everything is okay,’ Nationals manager Dave Martinez is quoted as saying.
In the game itself, Kyle Schwarber hit a three-run home run and J.T. Realmuto and Max Kepler socked solo shots as the Phillies won their fourth straight game.
Realmuto, Bryson Stott and Johan Rojas each had two hits for Philadelphia in support of Cristopher Sanchez (3-1), who combined with three relievers to pitch a five-hitter.
Nathaniel Lowe and Amed Rosario each drove in a run for Washington, which has dropped three in a row. The Nationals will look to avoid a three-game sweep when the teams reconvene Thursday evening.
Schwarber got the party started in the first inning with a three-run blast — his ninth homer of the season — against Washington starter Jake Irvin (2-1).
The Nationals got one run back in the third, when Sanchez opened the inning by walking Jacob Young, who came around to score on Lowe’s double to left.
The Phillies restored a three-run cushion when Stott delivered an RBI single in the fourth, but the Nationals got the run back in the fifth as Young led off with a single and scored on a fielder’s-choice grounder by Rosario.
Philadelphia added to its lead in the bottom of the fifth, as Nick Castellanos supplied an RBI single, and again in the sixth, when Kepler smacked his third home run of the season, making it 6-2.
Realmuto’s homer in the eighth capped the scoring.
