Video: Fan Behind Plate at PNC Park Injured by Foul Tip

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Monday’s Cubs-Pirates game was delayed 23 minutes after a scary incident in the second inning. Cubs shortstop Starlin Castro fouled off a 90-mile-per-hour pitch from Pirates pitcher A.J. Burnett and the ball hit a woman standing behind home plate.

Pittsburgh’s PNC Park, like all Major League ballparks, is equipped with netting behind home plate, but the woman was standing so close, that it did not prevent the ball from hitting her in the back of the head.

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