Cubs fan wearing plastic bucket spared serious injury when hit by part from scoreboard

Usually, the idea of wearing a bucket on your head to a baseball game would seem questionable. Particularly in the summer heat.

But for one Cubs fan, it may have helped him avoid serious injury.

The Chicago Tribune, citing a Cubs spokesman, reported that a metal pin that fastens a score tile to the Wrigley Field scoreboard fell and hit a 19-year-old man during Tuesday’s game against Arizona.

The Tribune noted that the man was wearing a plastic bucket over his head that apparently helped shield him. Despite the head gear, the man reportedly still required five staples to close a cut on his head.

Cubs spokesman Julian Green told The Tribune that the pins, which are 6- to 8-inch long, are used to attach the tiles and the team was “investigating whether it was dislodged or a worker dropped it.”

This story was originally published July 26, 2018 at 11:51 AM.