DETROIT (WXYZ) — Another Major League Baseball fan is hit by a foul ball, this time yesterday in Los Angeles. The woman was taken by stretcher to a hospital for treatment.
This comes a month after a little girl was hit by a hot smash foul ball in Houston. The condition on both victims is not known.
Carey Mason was hit by a foul ball in Detroit in 2015 It altered her life.
She’s suing the Tigers.
Bill Boyer, her attorney, says they have a good case because Carey was given a batting helmet as a souvenir by Victor Martinez and he says, “Carey and her friends were being harassed and berated by the security guards during the entire game, simply because the security guards were trying to retrieve a batting helmet that Victor Martinez had given them as a souvenir during the game.”
Major League Baseball required all teams to extend safety nets to the end of dugouts in 2017. But there are now calls to extend the nets even more after the incidents in Los Angeles and Houston this year.
The Tigers in a statement would not comment on pending litigation. But the statement also said:
The Tigers extended netting at Comerica Park prior to the start of the 2018 season. The press release is below. The netting extends far down into the outfield, down the left and right field lines, a few sections from the foul poles. Also, the netting is 30 feet high, among the highest in MLB ballparks.
