A fan at Fenway Park was struck in the head by a foul ball on Friday night and taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for treatment.
The unidentified young woman was hit by a ball that came into the stands on a line after deflecting off the bat of New York’s Didi Gregorius. Fellow fans responded quickly, one man stripping off his shirt to help stem the bleeding
After medical personnel arrived, she walked up the aisle from her seat with an ice pack and towel pressed to her head, was put in a wheelchair and taken to the hospital.
The woman was sitting on the right side of the visitors’ dugout, only a few rows from the field.
“You see a foul ball go into the seats like that, your thoughts are with her and her family. The last word I got, she’s conscious,” Red Sox manager John Farrell said. “Our thoughts are with her for sure, her and her family.”
It was the second such incident at Fenway Park in five weeks.
On June 5 against the Athletics, 44-year-old Tonya Carpenter of Paxton was struck in the face by a piece of broken bat while sitting behind the plate, just to the left of the protective netting. She was hospitalized for eight days with what were initially life-threatening injuries.