Umpire Suffers Heart Attack and Dies During Baseball Game Before He's Revived

A Little League umpire is lucky to be alive after suffering a heart attack in the middle of a baseball game.

Jeff Hiserodt was behind the plate last week at a game in the Los Angeles suburban neighborhood of Ladera Heights when he suddenly suffered a heart attack in the bottom of the second inning. Video shows him the moment he experiences the medical emergency as he collapses on the field to everyone's shock.

Within seconds, Hiserodt's colleagues and coaches race to help him. They found no pulse. But a doctor watching the game in the bleachers saved the umpire's life, though Dr. Jen Poole admits she initially hesitated.

"Someone said, 'Is there a doctor?'" recalled Poole, via KCBS. "I sat there for a while and I was like, well..."

Poole, a doctor at the famed Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, reportedly hesitated because she's not an ER doctor and is not familiar with resuscitation. 

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"The adrenaline's going, you're second guessing if you're doing the right thing," she recalled. "You just know you have to help."

"I was doing CPR for probably like 7 to 10 minutes, which is a really long time," Poole continued.

"She immediately, kind of a badass, picked up [my] legs and started cutting this and you can see her start giving directives," Hiserodt said. "To acknowledge what's happening and be the person that runs to the problem, to the fire, that's rare in today's day and age."

Hiserodt says he died on that field, but Poole's heroics, coupled with paramedics who used a defibrillator, truly saved his life. Days later, Hiserodt returned to the field where he says he died. Still in pain, Hiserodt could only look on and recall what it felt like to undergo such a scary ordeal.

"I feel like I got hit with a baseball bat and I lost the fight," he says. "Not everybody gets to revisit the spot that they died."