Former minor league pitcher helps victims at Las Vegas shooting

Former minor league pitcher Todd Blyleven was one of the concertgoers who turned good Samaritan in Las Vegas on Sunday night when the shooting started. 

Blyleven, the son of former MLB pitcher Bert Blyleven, told The Washington Post that he was near the back of the venue watching the Jason Aldean concert when the shots began to rain down. 

“The shooting just seemed like it went on for 10 or 15 minutes,” said Blyleven,  who pitched in the Angels, Dodgers, Brewers and Pirates organization in the 1990s.

More than 58 people were killed and about 515 people were injured in the largest mass shooing in modern U.S. history.  

Blyleven witnessed a police officer who had been shot in the neck carry out a lifeless body of a woman who had also been hit. 

“Young girls and guys, older folks," Blyleven said. "Just people walking out of a country concert with bullet holes. Everybody was just trying to do whatever they could to get these poor people out of the gunfire.”

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Blyleven led his brother-in-law and others to cover behind vendor carts as gunshots continued to strike around them. Then, he went back in and joined other volunteers who hoped to get more people out, Blyleven said.

Former major league pitcher Mike Timlin tweeted that he was at the concert but was unhurt.

Timlin pitched for 18 years and played for six teams.

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