Baseball: Fan hit by foul ball during New York Yankees game

Yankee Todd Frazier reacts to the child being hit. Photo / via Twitter

A young fan is "doing OK" after she was hit in the face by a foul ball during the fifth inning of the New York Yankees' 11-3 win over the Minnesota Twins on Thursday (US time).

Yankees manager Joe Girardi gave the positive update after the game, saying he had heard from stadium security.

The baseball game was delayed for nearly four minutes after a Todd Frazier line drive drilled the girl in the stands just beyond the third-base dugout. The fan was carried from the stands and then taken to hospital, the New York Post reported.

Child gets hit by a foul ball at Yankees game. The players' reactions say it all. pic.twitter.com/YIyaBJq7tT

— Jordan Heck (@JordanHeckFF) September 20, 2017

Frazier immediately put his hand to his mouth and went to one knee and other players were visibly shaken by the injury, with Frazier bent down on one knee for much of the stoppage and Matt Holliday, at second base, teary-eyed with the Yankees leading the game 9-3.

In a statement released by the team, the Yankees said "the child who was struck with a batted ball today was given first aid at the ballpark and is receiving medical attention at an area hospital" and declined further comment.

It's not the first time this season a spectator has been injured at Yankee Stadium.

An Aaron Judge foul ball hit a male fan in July, causing him to need medical attention and in May, a young boy was hit in the head by a Chris Carter broken bat and left bloodied. A source said the team would continue to look into installing extra netting.

The decision to increase netting is up to individual teams. The New York Mets extended the netting down the first and third-base lines following the All-Star break this season.

In addition to the Mets, Atlanta, Houston, Kansas City, Minnesota, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Texas and Washington also have extended netting.

Major League Baseball sent out a memo prior to the 2016 season "encouraging" teams to have "netting that shields from line-drive foul balls all field-level seats that are located between the near ends of both dugouts (ie the ends of the dugouts located closest to home plate, inclusive of any adjacent camera wells) and within 20m of home plate."

Good news: Yankees manager Joe Girardi said stadium security told him the little girl “is doing okay” after getting hit in the face.

— Jordan Heck (@JordanHeckFF) September 20, 2017