With all of the shooting that goes on within a one-mile radius of where the White Sox play, it’s surprising that this has not happened before. Maybe some archeology team should be looking for bullet impacts all throughout the park, because it’s not like the Sox have a game going on all of the times when bullets fly in the area.
During the construction of the current stadium, a stray bullet was found embedded in one of the outfield seats. The team was not yet playing games at the facility. In reaction to what had happened, the billboards ringing the outfield were rebuilt using solid steel so as to help shield the outfield spectators to a significant degree. This may have prevented stray bullets from entering the stadium until now.
The original Comiskey Park opened in 1910. The home plate entrance faced east and it was a solid brick building.
In order to lay the ground for extorting a new stadium from the taxpayers, Jerry Reinsdorf allowed the old ballpark to deteriorate by neglecting routine maintenance. Afterwards, he complained that the stadium was disintegrating and had become irreparable.
When the new stadium, paid for by the taxpayers, was built, the position of the diamond was reversed and left and center field faced east. A large complex of high rise public housing buildings were to the east of the stadium and the interstate expressway.
My bet is that the bullet was fired into the air and the woman was struck by a falling bullet.