The most common response when I brought up the subject was “we were just talking about that.” That, in this case, was the screaming foul ball that sent a 4-year-old girl to the hospital after striking her in the head during a Cubs-Astros game Wednesday.
The incident made national headlines, but it also sparked a debate: Should MLB stadiums provide protective netting from foul pole to foul pole in order to prevent something like this from happening again?
Two years ago, after a foul ball broke several bones in a 1-year-old’s face, all 30 MLB parks expanded netting to the far end of each dugout.