FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WOWO): A woman injured at a Fort Wayne TinCaps game last month is asking the team to do more to protect fans from foul balls.
Kathy Faulkner tells the News-Sentinel she needed five staples to close a wound on her head after she was hit by a foul ball on August 18th.
She had been sitting just outside the “safe” zone of netting that stretches from behind home plate along the first and third base lines. Now she’s asking the team to extend that netting all the way to each foul pole, saying the team needs to do something to protect kids.
Parkview Field is currently one of the safest parks in pro baseball, after adding 90 feet of netting down each base line recently, but team President Mike Nutter says he won’t rule out the possibility of putting in even more netting.
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And now she has a great story to tell at the bar!
Halloween costume…check!
Seriously though, I know you are supposed to pay attention at the game, but with kids and people and vendors moving about and yelling everywhere, it is impossible to be alert for every batter up. It is just a matter of time and statistics that people will get hurt.
I agree. I was in that section and upon leaving to use the restroom I dropped my sunglasses. As I was reaching down to pick them up I was hit in the backside. It took almost 2 hours for the surgeon to extract the baseball from my backside. I still have nightmares.