Luckily for him, he was wearing a bucket on his head at the time. For real.
Kyle McAleer was struck by a piece of debris from the scoreboard at about 8:50 p.m. on July 26, as the Cubs played the Arizona Diamondbacks. He was taken to Illinois Masonic Hospital with a cut to his head that required several staples.
Kyle, who is from Iowa, said he eats, sleeps and drinks Chicago sports. So when former Cubs player Starlin Castro wore a bucket on his head after the team won a game a few years ago, he was inspired to do the same. He got rally buckets for himself, his uncle and his father.
"We are generally the only people at the ball game with the buckets," said Scott McAleer, Kyle's father, with a laugh.
Remind me not to sit under the scoreboard. I'm clean out of buckets.
