Yankees and Orioles: Cameraman hurt by wild throw at game

A cameraman was injured aft being deed successful the caput by a shot astatine Wednesday night's lucifer successful New York betwixt the Yankees and the Baltimore Orioles.

Pete Stendel of the YES Network was struck during the bottommost of the 5th inning erstwhile a shot thrown to archetypal basal missed the subordinate and deed him.

Play was delayed for 15 minutes arsenic squad aesculapian unit tended to Mr Stendel.

As helium was being taken disconnected the field, helium raised his manus to question to the assemblage of implicit 36,000.

Mr Stendel was deed by a shot thrown by Orioles rookie shortstop Gunnar Henderson that sailed implicit archetypal basal and struck him connected the sidelines.

The Twitter relationship for the Baltimore Orioles said the squad wished him "a speedy recovery".

The Yankees tweeted footage of Mr Stendel with his manus up giving a bid motion arsenic a play cart drives him disconnected the field.

Audience members could beryllium heard chanting "MVP" - abbreviated for astir invaluable subordinate - arsenic helium was taken away.