Boston Red Sox fan badly hurt by broken bat

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 on Friday.

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 his bat on a hit and a large chunk flew into the second row between home plate and the dugout where the woman was sitting with a man and a boy.

The game was stopped while medical personnel attended to the woman. She appeared to be bleeding heavily while she was wheeled off the field and into a tunnel on the stretcher, the Globe said.