Here’s a pretty good read for the off-night. Basically, every four ball is dangerous. Between this and whatever the backpacks are up to, I don’t understand why anyone risks their life attending a baseball game. Stay home folks and Much More Netting Now.
But more netting won’t protect every fan. Linda Goldbloom was sitting high above home plate in Dodger Stadium — in zone 1, where netting is provided — last year when she was struck and killed by a high fly ball that had an exit velocity of just 73 mph. And a woman at Tropicana Field was hospitalized in 2016 after she was hit by a fly ball that found its way through a hole in the netting just to the left of the first-base dugout. (via FiveThirtyEight.com)
Look I am not a jerk-hole. I am sad someone died. I am sad people get injured.
I sat behind netting in London and saw not one, not two, but THREE balls get through. So yeah MORE NETTING NOW. Or just stay home.