Cup playoff game at the St. Pete Times Forum when he tripped and fell on the stairs, triggering massive internal bleeding. "He had about a gallon of blood in his abdomen", said Dr. Kevin Hirsch, a trauma surgeon at Bayfront Medical Center who operated on Thigpen. "He had significant bleeding in and around his pancreas and kidney that we had to go in and stop." Thigpen spent a week in the hospital and recovered. See also List of Major League Baseball annual saves leaders References External links The Hardball Times' This Week in Annotated Baseball History discusses Thigpen's career 1963 births Living people Baseball players from Tallahassee, Florida American League All-Stars American League saves champions Chicago White Sox players Philadelphia Phillies players Seattle Mariners players Chicago White Sox coaches Major League Baseball bullpen coaches Major League Baseball pitchers Fukuoka Daiei Hawks players American expatriate baseball players in Japan Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball players Seminole State Raiders baseball players Appleton Foxes players Niagara Falls Sox players Birmingham Barons players Hawaii Islanders players Nashville Sounds players Anchorage Glacier Pilots players Peninsula Oilers players