[wolfcreek]

Would it hurt baseball to invest in some netting to prevent such events?

[cripplecreek]

Would it hurt baseball to invest in some netting to prevent such events?

I doubt fans would accept it.

[jonascord]

How about the Feds demand a full catcher's outfit before any fan is admitted to the park? They can drink non-alcoholic beer thru special soft straws, have a hotdog-in-a-cup, and we can strap them into their seats so they don't wander around and fall on all that concrete...

That little girl is going to tell anyone who will listen, for the rest of her life, how she got beaned by a Major League line drive. And the story is only going to get better with the telling. In fifty years, there she was, 7th game of the World Series, bottom of the 9th, 2 outs, a full count, when...

[MozarkDawg]

Would it hurt baseball to invest in some netting to prevent such events?

I was at an Oakland A's game several years ago, a woman two seats away from me took a foul ball to the left cheek -- and we were thirty rows back behind the third base dugout.

You attend MLB, you keep your eyes open and yourself ready to move. This was a very young child, one can't expect the same reflexes. Thank God she is going to be okay, for the sake of her and her family and for Russell Martin, I can only imagine how he would be feeling if she had been killed by that ball.