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Big leaguers recount flight delay stories after Nationals' issue

BALTIMORE — The Washington Nationals had a frustrating wait of nearly eight hours on the tarmac in Philadelphia through early Monday before flying to Milwaukee.

But the trip never bordered on the near-tragic like the one slugger Trey Mancini of the Baltimore Orioles experienced when he was in college at Notre Dame.

Mancini was with his sister and father, an OB-GYN, on a flight during fall break from South Bend, Indiana to St. Petersburg, Florida when a passenger had a medical emergency.

“His heart stopped beating. My father resuscitated him,” Mancini said before Monday’s game against the Boston Red Sox.