Oh baby! Woman gives birth at the Padres-Giants game
The San Diego Padres had an announced attendance of 31,137 for Thursday night's game against the San Francisco Giants.
Their count was off by one.
Around the third inning, a yet-to-be identified woman gave birth to a baby boy.
The Padres are lucky to have Donna Borowy on their payroll. She's a registered nurse and midwife who told MLB.com's Corey Brock that she's delivered "three to four thousand" babies, but never one at a ballpark.
Here's Brock with more:
"Usually, we transport zero and maybe six or seven people to the hospitals each game, depending on the crowd," Borowy said. "It can be seizures, heart attacks but mostly it's trip-and-falls and little boo-boos."
On Thursday, the lead EMT at Petco Park got a call just before 7 p.m. - the game began at 6:10 p.m. - in which a female was in labor. Borowy got into a cart and, along with two EMTs, drove to the spot just outside the team store.
"When I got there she was completely dilated and having to push," Borowy said of the female, who was at 39 weeks. "She was perfectly calm. She said, 'I'm having my baby, can I make it to the hospital.'"
That was never going to happen, though. Within five minutes, Levi was born. The Padres were not releasing the name or hometown of the mother.
"We had a nice view of the palms," Borowy said, smiling.
No, they didn't name the baby Tony, or Gwynn, or Tony Gwynn III. His name is Levi.