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Fan left with life-threatening injuries after being hit by bat

BOSTON - A spectator seated in the box seats was removed from Fenway Park after being hit on the head by the broken barrel of Oakland third baseman Brett Lawrie’s bat in the second inning of Friday night’s Boston Red Sox-A’s game.

Boston police confirmed a report by WCVB -TV in Boston that the woman who was hit suffered life-threatening injuries.

The game was delayed for about five minutes while the woman, seated with a man and a young child, was treated apparently for a wound on the left side of her head. Attendants were holding a towel tightly to the left side of her head.