On July NUMBER@1 , NUMBER@2 , PERSON@1 suffered a stroke and collapsed while playing a game of catch before an ORGANIZATION@1 game , and was rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery to remove a life-threatening blood clot in his neck .

On July NUMBER@1 , NUMBER@2 , PERSON@1 suffered a stroke and collapsed while playing catch before a game . The surgery removed a dangerous blood clot in his neck .
