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Man dies after competing in taco-eating contest at baseball game

August 15, 2019 7:16 am

A man died Tuesday night after competing in a taco-eating contest at a Minor League Baseball game in Fresno, California, officials said.

The Fresno County Sheriff’s Department identified the deceased man as 41-year-old Dana Hutchings, a Fresno resident.

He had been participating in the food contest at a Fresno Grizzlies baseball game before he was taken to the hospital, where he died, Tony Botti, spokesman for the sheriff’s department, told ABC News.

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Details around his death were not immediately clear, but Botti said the sheriff’s office “have an idea” about his cause of death, but they are not yet ruling on a cause of death.

Botti did not elaborate further.