![]() She died two days later, and her parents eventually settled with the team for $1.2 million, the league and the arena management. Mother Nature played a factor, too, delaying first. Red Sox prospect Jarren Duran also made his much-anticipated MLB debut and collected his first career hit off Yankees ace Gerrit Cole. The Yankees beat the Red Sox 3-1 for New Yorks first win of the season against its rivals from Boston. The National Hockey League ordered safety netting installed at each end of NHL arenas after 13-year-old Brittanie Cecil was killed by a deflected puck at a Columbus Blue Jackets game in 2002. lot happened at Yankee Stadium on Saturday night. Though dozens of fans at big league ballparks are struck by foul balls each season, there has been only one fatality, according to baseball researchers - a 14-year-old boy killed by a foul line drive off the bat of Manny Mota at Dodger Stadium in 1970. I think MLB and the players’ association have talked long and hard about how they can try to keep this from happening,” Melvin said. The Red Sox have been proactively putting up additional netting around home plate and toward the dugouts for the past few years, but baseballs still find their way into the stands.One fan suffered. “You have a ballpark here that’s how old, and it’s close, you have some maple bats that break. ![]() Multi-piece bat failures are down about 50 per cent since the beginning of the 2009 season, MLB spokesman Michael Teevan said. “I do know that MLB is probably taking a look at the incident last night, as they do with any bat that flies into the stands,” Red Sox manager John Farrell said. ![]() Article contentĬoncerned about a rash of flying broken bats and the danger they posed, Major League Baseball studied the issue in 2008 and implemented a series of changes to bat regulations for the following season. Cubs outfielder Moiss Alou attempted to make the catch near the wall, but Cubs. 'It felt like it was targeted towards me and it don’t sit well with me,' Verdugo said. Marlins batter Luis Castillo hit a fly ball into foul territory in left field. Verdugo said he tossed the ball into the stands intending it for a young Red Sox fan, but that a Yankees fan ended up with it. ![]() This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The incident occurred in the sixth inning when the fan threw a ball at Verdugo from the left field stands, hitting him in the back. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt Associated Press at 9:29 pm NEW YORK The fan who hit Boston Red Sox left fielder Alex Verdugo with a baseball thrown from the Yankee Stadium stands has been banned for life. ![]()
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