GaryMrMets
04-13-2003, 03:41 AM
Red Sox Coach Cubbage Collapses
BOSTON -- Boston Red Sox third-base coach Mike Cubbage had a diabetic seizure and collapsed on the field during the home opener against the Baltimore Orioles. He was expected to make a full recovery.
Cubbage was taken off the field on a stretcher before the start of the sixth inning after he had convulsions in the third-base coach's box. The team said he had too little sugar, and too much insulin, in his blood and responded well to intravenous fluids.
"He's doing well,'' Red Sox physician Bill Morgan said after the game, adding that Cubbage would be kept overnight at the hospital for observation. "He's wide awake, and if everything comes out normal in the morning, he'll be discharged.''
The game resumed after a five-minute delay.
Cubbage should have been leaving the field as the Red Sox took their positions in the top of the sixth. But there was a commotion around the third-base coaching box as members of the Orioles rushed to his side and Red Sox players ran out to assist him.
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Boston Red Sox third base coach Mike Cubbage, center, (39) starts to collapse on the field as Baltimore Orioles team member Jerry Hairston, left, and Orioles third base coach Tom Trebelhorn and a police officer come to Cubbage's aid at Fenway Park in Boston, Saturday, April 12, 2002. Cubbage, a diabetic, was taken off the field on a stretcher.
(AP Photo/Jim Rogash)
BOSTON -- Boston Red Sox third-base coach Mike Cubbage had a diabetic seizure and collapsed on the field during the home opener against the Baltimore Orioles. He was expected to make a full recovery.
Cubbage was taken off the field on a stretcher before the start of the sixth inning after he had convulsions in the third-base coach's box. The team said he had too little sugar, and too much insulin, in his blood and responded well to intravenous fluids.
"He's doing well,'' Red Sox physician Bill Morgan said after the game, adding that Cubbage would be kept overnight at the hospital for observation. "He's wide awake, and if everything comes out normal in the morning, he'll be discharged.''
The game resumed after a five-minute delay.
Cubbage should have been leaving the field as the Red Sox took their positions in the top of the sixth. But there was a commotion around the third-base coaching box as members of the Orioles rushed to his side and Red Sox players ran out to assist him.
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/photo?slug=1050197585orioles_red_sox_majr107&prov=ap
http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20030412/capt.1050197585orioles_red_sox_majr107.jpg
Boston Red Sox third base coach Mike Cubbage, center, (39) starts to collapse on the field as Baltimore Orioles team member Jerry Hairston, left, and Orioles third base coach Tom Trebelhorn and a police officer come to Cubbage's aid at Fenway Park in Boston, Saturday, April 12, 2002. Cubbage, a diabetic, was taken off the field on a stretcher.
(AP Photo/Jim Rogash)