MLB TV Worker Dies of Apparent Heart Attack After Collapsing at Turner Field

An Atlanta-area television worker died while setting up for the broadcast of a Major League Baseball game.

The man, 61-year-old Reuben Porras of Newnan, Ga., collapsed Wednesday night in a media room at Turner Field while setting up for a television broadcast for the MLB Network. The incident occurred ahead of Thursday's game between the Atlanta Braves and Washington Nationals, according to the Associated Press.

The Nationals' head athletic trainer, Lee Kuntz, and an assistant used an automated external defibrillator and performed CPR on Porras. They were initially able to revive the 61-year-old and stabilize him before paramedics took him away in an ambulance.

Porras later died at the hospital from an apparent heart attack.

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