Shard of a broken bat hit fan in face, taken off by stretcher

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Edit: It doesn't say face. I don't know why I assumed that.

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[navamind]

Police are saying the fan has life-threatening injuries.

 

[iowajerms]

Fan injured at Fenway Park after being hit by part of Brett Lawrie's broken bat

BOSTON -- A woman bleeding from the head was carried out of the Fenway Park stands after being hit by a broken bat Friday night, and police said her injuries were life threatening.

Boston police spokesman David Estrada said all or part of the bat hit her during the game between the Oakland Athletics and Boston Red Sox.

Brett Lawrie broke his bat on a groundout to second base for the second out of the inning.

After the third out, the game was delayed while the fan was tended to in the stands between home plate and the third base dugout. She was taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

"You try to keep her in your thoughts and, hopefully, everything's all right and try to get back to the task at hand," said Lawrie, when asked how he was able to refocus after what happened. "Hopefully everything's OK and she's doing all right.

"I've seen bats fly out of guys' hands in(to) the stands and everyone's OK, but when one breaks like that, has jagged edges on it, anything can happen."

Alex Merlis, of Brookline, Massachusetts, said he was sitting in the row behind the woman when the broken bat flew into the stands just a few rows from the field.

"It was violent," he said of the impact to her forehead and top of her head. "She bled a lot. A lot. I don't think I've ever seen anything like that."

Merlis said the woman had been sitting with a small child and a man. After she was injured, the man was tending to her and other people were trying to console the distraught child, he said.

Concerned about a rash of flying broken bats and the danger they posed, Major League Baseball studied the issue in 2008 and made a series of changes to bat regulations for the following season.

Multi-piece bat failures are down approximately 50 percent since the start of the 2009 season, MLB spokesman Michael Teevan said.

Though dozens of baseball fans are struck by foul balls each season, there has been only one fatality, according to baseball researchers -- a 14-year-old boy killed by a foul line drive off the bat of Manny Mota at Dodger Stadium in 1970.

The National Hockey League ordered safety netting installed at each end of NHL arenas after 13-year-old Brittanie Cecil was killed by a deflected puck at a Columbus Blue Jackets game in 2002. She died two days later, and her parents eventually settled with the team for $1.2 million, the league and the arena management.

"First and foremost, our thoughts and concern, and certainly our prayers, go out to the woman that was struck with the bat, her and her family," said Red Sox manager John Farrell. "A scary moment, certainly.

"All you can think about is a family, they come to a ballgame to hopefully get three hours of enjoyment, and unfortunately with how close our stands are to the field of action, an accident like this tonight is certainly disturbing."

Center fielder Mookie Betts, who was waiting to hit when the fan was stretchered away, said he saw and heard what was happening.

"You just hope and pray everything will be OK," he said. "Never seen anything like this. First for everything, hopefully the last."

 

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[HammerDown]

How completely awful.

 

[Mondo Jay]

Thoughts and prayers.

 

[The Derski]

Fan sitting behind her said it was the most blood he's ever seen. She's in stable but serious condition right now. That's better than life threatening, which it was yesterday.

 

[Bmurph]

Horrific experience for all, hopefully she makes a full recovery and has no ill-affects and the child doesnt remember most of what happened

 

[GNG]

Fan sitting behind her said it was the most blood he's ever seen. She's in stable but serious condition right now. That's better than life threatening, which it was yesterday.

She probably wishes she went to a tupper-ware party instead of to a ball game.

 

[Used 2 B Hu]

Ban baseball

 

[iowajerms]

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[BF4L]

FYI

Some good news.

Boston police: Fan hit by bat at Fenway expected to survive

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

Holy shit. That's horrible.

Brett Lawrie is a real dick.

 

[tducey]

Thoughts are with this woman at this time, goes to show you can never be to careful at these guys. Glad to see she should survive.

 

[romeo212000]

I don't know exactly what was going on, but this just goes to show, if you're gonna sit in those areas, pay attention to the game.

 

[Rock Strongo]

luckily a cop was right there and shielded her son from seeing his mother like that.

she was screaming the entire way off the field. screaming.