Rays fan saves life after man goes into cardiac arrest during a baseball game

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - A Rays fan is being hailed a hero after saving a man's life who went into cardiac arrest during Saturday's Rays game. 

Rays fans Jani Morales and her boyfriend Ken Frey were taking in the game on Saturday night when all of a sudden they noticed a man in distress. 

"He’s completely blue, and I mean just blue, and I touch him. He is cold, sweaty. I checked the pulse. I don't feel a pulse. I looked at the guy who was holding him. I was like, ‘I need you to get him on the ground.’ He goes, ‘okay,' so we get him on the ground. There's another guy like, we need to perform CPR," Morales explained

Jani Morales and Ken Frey helped save a man's life after he went into cardiac arrest at a Rays game. 

Morales, who is an ultrasound technician with CPR training, raced to his side, jumping over the seats to get to him. She immediately started chest compressions.

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"I did the compressions and then finally my third set, he took a breath and I got his pulse back," Morales said. "It was a sense of relief, but I was still nervous and very shaky, and I was just trying to console him. He was breathing by the time the paramedics got there."

That’s when Morales says paramedics enlisted her help to put the defibrillator pads on his chest then they shocked him. Paramedics later told the couple the man was conscious in the ambulance breathing on his own and talking once he got to Bayfront Health. It was a major sigh of relief for Morales and Frey.

Rays fans Jani Morales and Ken Frey at a game. 

"Paramedics did tell us that it would be a completely different outcome if CPR was not performed. It would have been completely different. They said I saved his life. Definitely," Morales said.  

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Morales encourages anyone who isn’t in the medical field to still get CPR training because it could save a life. 

"It’s extremely important because you just never know. I went to a Rays game. I wanted to watch baseball. I was there just as a fan and I just ended up saving somebody's life. As crazy as that sounds," Morales said.