{"id":51643,"date":"2022-08-21T03:44:52","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T03:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/red-soxs-bill-lee-wasnt-breathing-after-collapse-revived\/"},"modified":"2022-08-21T03:44:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T03:44:52","slug":"red-soxs-bill-lee-wasnt-breathing-after-collapse-revived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/red-soxs-bill-lee-wasnt-breathing-after-collapse-revived\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox&#8217;s Bill Lee &#8216;wasn&#8217;t breathing&#8217; after collapse, revived"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former major leaguer Bill Lee had stopped breathing after collapsing in the bullpen during an exhibition game, but paramedics and two shocks with a defibrillator helped resuscitate the 75-year-old pitcher, according to a witness at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout immediate intervention, I do not believe he&#8217;d be here today,\u201d Town of Thunderbolt Administrator Bob Milie told The Associated Press on Saturday, a day after the cardiac episode during a game for the popular Savannah Bananas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe wasn&#8217;t breathing,\u201d said Milie, who&#8217;s also a firefighter in the Georgia town a few miles from Savannah.  \u201cIt was very, very dire.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>Bill Lee collapsed during an exhibition game with the Savannah Bananas.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Michael Dwyer, File<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Bananas manager Eric Byrnes <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/byrnes22\/status\/1561042063390556160?s=20&amp;t=Zyogp6Y3KjwV6ygpU9nbsg\" target=\"_blank\">posted a picture to Twitter<\/a> of himself with Lee \u2014 a member of the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame \u2014 at Memorial Health University Medical Center on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>One of Lee&#8217;s daughters arrived in town and was at the hospital with him, team president Jared Orton said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe said he&#8217;s in good spirits and continues to be evaluated for next steps in recovery, but is certainly acting like himself,\u201d Orton said in an email to the AP.<\/p>\n<p>Orton said a member of the Bananas&#8217; front office stayed with Lee at the hospital past midnight.<\/p>\n<p>Milie was at Grayson Stadium to see the Bananas, an entertaining team known for its bright yellow uniform and its clowning antics on and off the field.  The game against the Party Animals was on ESPN2.<\/p>\n<p>Lee, fondly nicked \u201cSpaceman\u201d for his irreverent approach during his days with the Red Sox and Montreal Expos, had previously pitched for the Bananas.  When he went down Friday night, some people in the ballpark thought for an instant that it might&#8217;ve been part of their team&#8217;s \u201cBananas Ball\u201d act.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cYou never know with the Bananas.  It was like &#8216;is this \u2026 Wait, this is definitely not part of the show,&#8217;\u201d Milie said.<\/p>\n<p>Milie, who wasn&#8217;t part of the team that treated Lee, praised all the EMTs, police, firefighters and rescue personnel at the scene for their swift action.<\/p>\n<p>Milie said Lee was shocked twice with the defibrillator on the field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe second one, that seemed to do the trick, got the heart beating,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Lee was able to leave the field with assistance and the game later resumed.<\/p>\n<p>In 14 seasons with Boston and Montreal, Lee went 119-90.  An All-Star in 1973, the left-hander helped pitch the Red Sox into the 1975 World Series and started Game 7 against Cincinnati.  Lee exited in the seventh inning and Boston later lost to Cincinnati 4-3.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former major leaguer Bill Lee had stopped breathing after collapsing in the bullpen during an exhibition game, but paramedics and two shocks with a defibrillator helped resuscitate the 75-year-old pitcher, according to a witness at the scene. \u201cWithout immediate intervention, I do not believe he&#8217;d be here today,\u201d Town of Thunderbolt Administrator Bob Milie told &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/red-soxs-bill-lee-wasnt-breathing-after-collapse-revived\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Red Sox&#8217;s Bill Lee &#8216;wasn&#8217;t breathing&#8217; after collapse, revived<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[19599,2883,661,19600,307],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51561,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/former-boston-red-sox-pitcher-bill-lee-wasnt-breathing-after-collapse-revived\/","url_meta":{"origin":51643,"position":0},"title":"Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Bill Lee &#8216;wasn&#8217;t breathing&#8217; 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