These are the types of stories that make everyone cringe — on Friday a woman was struck by a broken bat at Fenway Park during a game between the Oakland Athletics and the Boston Red Sox. As a result, she was removed from the game.
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The tweets that follow explain the severity of the injury:
Scary situation in Boston: Game halted as fan was injured after being struck by a shard from Brett Lawrie’s bat, rushed off by medics. — 120 Sports (@120Sports) June 5, 2015
A shard from Brett Lawrie’s broken bat struck fan sitting in third-base boxes. Bleeding pretty profusely. Other fan offers shirt to medics — Gordon Edes (@GordonEdes) June 5, 2015
Fan suffers life-threatening injuries after being hit by a broken bat during Red Sox game http://t.co/2SglFkJ1Ae pic.twitter.com/bBFMUTrMbv — The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) June 6, 2015
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen that much blood,” said one witness at Fenway http://t.co/JGku5wqTdm pic.twitter.com/yTb4XY0SVz
— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) June 6, 2015