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A fan, who was accidentally hit in the head with a broken bat by Oakland A's Brett Lawrie received medical attention.AP
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Boston Red Sox president and CEO Larry Lucchino comforts a man holding a child after a woman they were sitting with was hit by a wooden shard.AP
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A woman

at Fenway Park during a game between the Athletics and the Red Sox on Friday night remains in serious condition at a Boston hospital, but is expected to survive,

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Tonya Carpenter was struck in the head by Oakland player Brett Lawrie’s bat as she sat near the field between home plate and the third base dugout.

A spokeswoman for Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Hospital says Carpenter’s condition is not expected to change Sunday.

Her family said in a statement released by the hospital Saturday they are “grateful to all who have reached out with thoughts and prayers.”

Forty-four-year-old Carpenter, of Paxton, Massachusetts, had posted a Facebook photo from the game before the accident. A friend said Carpenter was there with her son and a friend.

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