Umpire Jim Joyce does CPR, helps to save woman’s life at Chase Field
Jim Joyce, the umpire most notable for ruining a perfect game by Detroit's Armando Galarraga in 2010, probably made the best save ever at Chase Field in Phoenix on Monday. And it had nothing to do with a baseball game.
Joyce, a 24-year veteran of the major leagues, used CPR to help save the life of a woman having a seizure. The woman, a game-day employee of the Arizona Diamondbacks named Jayne Powers, who joined the organization on its first day of existence in 1998, is said to be "doing well" Tuesday. But if Joyce had not stepped forward, who knows if she would have made it?
As told to reporter Scott Miller of CBS's Eye On Baseball, the four-man umpiring crew for Arizona's game against the Miami Marlins was in a ballpark tunnel walking to its dressing room about 90 minutes before the first pitch when the four saw Powers having a seizure. Joyce, 56, said he took CPR in high school and had used it before but not in a long time. He knew first to protect Powers' head before going to work, but then her body relaxed.
This was bad. She had stopped breathing.
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