St. Louis Post Dispatch sportswriter Derrick Goold helped save a man who suffered a heart attack and stroke Sunday before the Cardinals faced the Chicago Cubs at Busch Stadium.

Videographer Mike Flanary abruptly collapsed amidst his media duties for a Chicago television station in the Cubs' dugout and was briefly without a pulse, according to The Dispatch. Reporters were gathered for the announcement of then-manager Joe Maddon's dismissal.

Goold, who had CPR training from being an Eagle Scout and lifeguard earlier in his life, stepped in to perform CPR before the Cubs training staff provided further aid. Then emergency medical personnel arrived to help transfer the 64-year-old Flanary to the local hospital.

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Washington University’s Dr. David Tan called Goold a hero, noting that he was "the first link in that chain of survival."

"It was the early CPR by Derrick Goold that probably saved his life," Tan told the newspaper. "Derrick wasn’t afraid. He didn’t hesitate. And he did it. In the medical field, when you save somebody like this, they call it a clinical save."