Yankee Victory Becomes Footnote After Girl Is Struck by Line Drive<br />“We have been waiting to hear from the Yankees on their plans on how they will move forward<br />and urge them to let the public know as soon as possible where they stand.”<br />According to a Yankee Stadium paramedic, who was not authorized to publicly discuss fan injuries, the girl appeared to have been struck by the ball in the nose<br />and right eye and was bleeding when she was carried by her grandfather to a first aid station behind the stands.<br />The episode was at least the third time this season<br />that a fan at Yankee Stadium had been struck by either a foul ball or a shattered bat during a game, and each instance has added to the debate about what Major League Baseball should do to better protect its fans.<br />The Yankees easily completed a three-game sweep of the Minnesota Twins on Wednesday and bolstered their bid for a postseason berth, but all of<br />that was overshadowed by an unsettling incident in the fifth inning, when a line drive off the bat of Todd Frazier appeared to hit the face of a young girl who was seated directly behind the third-base dugout.<br />In the stands behind third base, stadium staff members hurried to the scene,<br />and the girl, who was bleeding, was carried to an exit by a person later identified as her grandfather.<br />If Yankee Stadium had netting in place that did stretch to the far end of the third-base<br />dugout, Frazier’s line drive, in all likelihood, would not have reached the stands.
