A female fan was seriously injured by a piece of a broken baseball bat that flew into the stands during the Boston Red Sox and Oakland A’s game. The woman, who was struck in the face, was rushed from the field on a stretcher and taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, The Boston Globe reported. The incident took place in the second inning when A’s batter Brett Lawrie shattered
(Reuters) – A female baseball fan was struck in the head by a broken bat during a game between the Boston Red Sox and the Oakland Athletics at Boston’s Fenway Park on Friday and suffered life-threatening injuries, a Police spokeswoman said. The woman had been sitting in the second row with her husband and son when the incident occurred at 7:40 p.m., said Officer Rachel McGuire. “Apparently a broken bat
Norway’s Suzann Pettersen fired a bogey-free seven-under 65 to seize a share of the lead with Mariajo Uribe atop a crowded leaderboard after the second round of the LPGA Tour’s Manulife Classic. Pettersen missed just three fairways and hit every green to sit tied with Uribe, who shot a bogey-free round of 66. “I think if you hit all the fairways, you’re going to give yourself a lot of chances
NBA Most Valuable Player Steph Curry and Golden State coach Steve Kerr will not allow the Warriors to relax even after NBA Finals foe Cleveland lost star guard Kyrie Irving. The Cavaliers said Friday that versatile playmaker Irving suffered a fractured left kneecap in over-time during Golden State’s 108-100 victory Thursday over Cleveland in the opener of the best-of-seven championship series, dealing superstar LeBron James and his teammates a major
Golden State’s Steve Kerr and Cleveland’s Dave Blatt, the first rookie coaches to meet in the NBA Finals since the first one in 1947, took paths through the Middle East to reach the sport’s biggest stage. Kerr wanted Blatt on his coaching staff before Blatt was offered the top coaching post in Cleveland, taking it only a few weeks before superstar LeBron James decided to leave Miami and return to
– It wasn’t just trees, flowers, and other pollinating plants that were in bloom in May. Auto sales blossomed too. They’re on pace to reach 17.7 million U.S. sales this year, and if June goes just as well, it will be the first time the industry maintains this momentum in 11 years. All told, May’s 1.63 million vehicle sales were up 12 percent from April and two percent from a
-Quirky. Offbeat. Funky. It seems wherever Nissan’s Juke goes, those three adjectives seem to follow. And we get it: A subcompact crossover, the Juke wears its high wheel arches and an even higher beltline as badges of nonconformist honor, their effect only amplified by the slivers of side glass, ambiguous rear doors, bulbous tailgate, and twisted front and rear lamp lenses that rise, blisterlike, from the body surface. But to
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– If you abide by the idea that the Pope is really just a normal dude who gets to wear a robe everyday, then the news that he has augmented his predecessor’s special Mercedes parade car with a Hyundai is, well, not really news. But c’mon, people, this is the Pope, the leader of the Catholic church, globally recognized public figure, and all-around guy you wouldn’t expect to make risk-fraught public
– Hoping to make drunk driving a literal impossibility, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration rolled out a prototype drunkenness-detection system for cars that would disallow vehicle operation if the driver is above the legal limit. Working with auto-industry members, NHTSA has been working on DADSS—Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety—and presented its ideas for stopping drunk-driving accidents before they happen before Congress and Mothers Against Drunk Driving. – – Drunk driving