WFAN's Craig Carton gives voice to those involved in Citi Field health scare turned feel-good story

You don’t usually tune in to Craig Carton’s WFAN show to hear a heartwarming tale.

But that’s exactly what happened on Friday.

Carton, the controversial afternoon show host, spent an hour interviewing participants who helped a man who had passed out in the stands a day earlier in the first inning of the Mets’ season opener at Citi Field.

Carton and his co-host Chris McMonigle interviewed a Good Samaritan, a Citi Field security guard and a Long Island emergency room doctor, all of whom sprang into action when a Bronx man named Martin McGuire passed out because of what people feared was a heart attack but later was confirmed to be a low blood pressure incident.

The story came full circle when “The Carton Show” producer Pete Hoffman reached McGuire himself. The hosts conducted an interview in which McGuire said he was “doing great” and was full of gratitude for the strangers who helped him.

“They jumped into action like New Yorkers will,” said McGuire, who celebrated his 73rd birthday on Tuesday. “I’d really like to thank all of them.”

How did this incident get from Section 122 to WFAN? Simple: Carton posted on X about it on Friday, a post that drew more than 2.2 million views.

The post went viral for all the right reasons.

“This is probably the most overwhelmingly positive thing I've ever experienced on Twitter,” Carton told Newsday over the weekend.

Crazy story at yesterdays @Mets game - Guy in section 121 had a heart attack and his wife started frantically yelling for help or a doctor or nurse to come over - One random guy in the section who said he was neither started doing chest compressions and saved the mans life.…

— Craig Carton (@craigcartonlive) March 27, 2026

Here’s what happened:

“The producer of my podcast went to the Met game with his wife,” Carton said. “His name is Ethan Kleinberg. And he said, ‘You're not going to believe this crazy story.’ And he goes on to tell me how a woman jumped up frantically yelling and screaming for help that the man she was with had collapsed. She was frantically yelling, ‘Does anybody know CPR? I need help! I need help!’ ”

“That was me,” Kathleen Pettit of Massapequa told Newsday. “I started screaming to everyone in the section. I need a doctor. I need a nurse, EMT, just screaming like a lunatic. And that’s when Jordan said, ‘I’m certified in CPR.’ ”

Jordan is Jordan Baltimore, the chief executive officer of New York Empire Baseball, a youth coaching organization with locations in Manhattan and Syosset.

“I stood up and said, ‘I’m not a doctor,’ ” Baltimore told Newsday. “I’m CPR trained. There was a man sitting in the chair unresponsive. His head was leaned back, mouth open, and I just started CPR protocol.”

Had Baltimore ever performed CPR?

“No,” he said. “Every other bone and injury and concussion and you name it, I’ve done. I’ve been coaching for 17 years. And, I mean, for all of the places for it to happen: Citi Field.”

Craig Carton & Chris McMonigle break down the unbelievable moment that saved a man's life at Citifield yesterday. The guys speak with the real-life heroes, Dr. Alyssa Lorenzana, Jordan Baltimore, NYPD Officer Bellomo, and the fan who lived to tell the story, Martin. pic.twitter.com/SscvVOh72E

— WFAN Sports Radio (@WFAN660) March 27, 2026

Luckily for everyone involved, at that moment emergency room doctor Alyssa Lorenzana was heading back to her seat after getting a hot dog and drink for her husband, Adam, who was with their 7-month-old son Bennett.

“On my way back, I saw my husband running up and down the stairs with the baby,” Lorenzana, who works at Huntington and South Shore University hospitals, told Newsday. “So I handed off the food I had and went down to help. When I got to the scene, the gentleman was sitting alone in a chair. Everyone had backed away. I looked at him. I couldn’t tell if he was breathing or not. I had one of the gentlemen and myself, we checked for pulses and we both didn’t feel any.”

Lorenzana said she had two men lift McGuire and put him on the ground so Baltimore could administer CPR.

“I continued compressions,” Baltimore said, “and he started to respond. By that time, I got a tap on my shoulder. The guy who tapped said, ‘I’m EMS. I’m here to relieve you.’ I got up and the guy was beginning to respond to EMS and I went back to my seat and watched the game.”

McGuire, who declined to be interviewed by Newsday, was taken out in a chair by EMS and then to New York-Presbyterian Queens Hospital to get checked out, he told Carton on Friday. By 7 p.m. — about six hours after the incident — he was released.

“I’m doing great,” McGuire told Carton. “It wasn’t a heart attack. It was just my blood pressure. Went low and I passed out and a lot of people got up to help me.

“Everybody was great. The fans were great. The [police officers] were great. The EMT was great and I have to thank everybody . . . God bless them all.”

Even though he missed the Mets’ 11-7 victory over the Pirates, McGuire said: “I’ll be back . . . Let’s go Mets.”

A Mets spokesman did not respond to a request for comment on the incident.