On thursday´s game a 39 years old man died when fell form aproximated 20 feet trying to cath a foul ball. The man was at the game with his six years old son.
"Every time you see fans trying to catch a ball, I always get scared. We toss the balls to the fans just trying to be nice. It's not like we want anybody to get hurt." -- Boston Red Soxdesignated hitter David Ortiz.
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"It's really beyond tragic. It's just so sad. It's such, a friendly part and a happy part of the game, especially with a father and son and for it to end in such a tragedy, it's just full on brokenhearted. It's just such a tough, tough thing, it really is." -- Milwaukee Brewers closerJohn Axford.
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"It's not been an easy day. There's gonna be a stretch here where we're all gonna grieve for a while." -- Oakland Athletics reliever Brad Ziegler.
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"Everybody has a heavy heart, regardless of what side you're on. You go out and do your thing on the field. ... Everybody handles it differently. There's not one piece of medicine that you can give somebody because we're all human beings and all handle things differently." -- Oakland manager Bob Melvin.
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"I know I get nervous when I see guys reaching over the upper deck for foul balls all the time, foul balls come up there, and it shows you, boy, you don't have to fall very far for something bad to happen. You just can't believe it when you see it." -- Cincinnati Redsmanager Dusty Baker.
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"It's a very sad situation. I just put on TV and listened to Nolan Ryan and very sad. Very sad moment for baseball and the way all that happened. His family was there. A very, very dramatic thing. In the meanwhile it's just something you always wonder about it that somebody doesn't get hurt. I saw a kid get hit yesterday behind the first-base dugout. Luis Salazar get hit by ball. But that's part of the game. But when somebody loses their life when somebody is trying to be nice, I've never seen that before. That's why I think it shocked a lot of people because that never happened before in baseball -- I don't remember it happening in the game." -- Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen.
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"Players have been giving baseballs to kids in the stands as long as we've been in the game and baseball is always saying `Hey, you have to be really careful with those things.' Guys are trying to do something nice and this happens and it's really sad, it's heartbreaking. I think it's a situation that baseball has really been on top of. Like I said, it's something you always worry about when you throw a ball up, people scramble for it, they might get hurt, and that's kind of what baseball has been talking about for a long time here. I don't even know how to describe it. It's gut-wrenching. It's really sad." -- Minnesota Twins manager Ron Gardenhire.
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