A female fan in attendance at the Boston Red Sox game on Friday was struck by a broken bat and has life-threatening injuries.
A female fan attending the Boston Red Sox and Oakland Athletics game at Fenway Park on Friday was taken away via stretcher after being hit by a piece of a broken bat.
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When Athletics third baseman Brett Lawrie broke his bat on the play, a shard flew into the stands and struck the woman in the head.
She began to bleed from her wound, was immediately tended to and was eventually stretchered out of the stadium right past the Boston Red Sox dugout.
It is now being reported that she is battling life threatening injuries as a result of the incident.
NEW: #Boston Police tell us woman hit by shard of broken bat at Fenway has life threatening injuries. #RedSox
— David Wade (@davidwade) June 6, 2015
Here is video of fans who witnessed the incident describing Fenway officials’ quick response.
Fans describe seeing woman get hit with broken bat at Fenway #WCVB pic.twitter.com/4T56mrpGqM
— John Atwater (@AtwaterWCVB) June 6, 2015
For reference, here’s the swing by Lawrie on the play. You can see that the bat breaks at the handle and flies off in the direction of the stands.
Thoughts and prayers go out to the victim.
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