Family of Woman Injured at Fenway Starts GoFundMe Page

The brother-in-law of the woman struck and injured by a broken baseball bat at a Boston Red Sox game on June 5, 2015, has started a GoFundMe.com page to raise money to offset medical expenses, according to a post online.

Mark Carpenter has started the page for Tonya Carpenter in an effort to help her raiser $120,000. Tonya Carpenter was struck in the head by the baseball bat while sitting in the second row of the third base line with her son and a friend.

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“Anyone who knows Tonya, knows she’s a fighter, and in time she will return. Stronger and more full of life than ever,” Mark Carpenter wrote on the GoFundMe.com site. “I’m asking you to donate to this fund, to help Tonya during the long Journey back, and I believe this help, will allow her to worry about her (recovery) and not about work, or how she’ll be able to take care of her precious Aidan.”

Tonya Carpenter remains in serious condition at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and is expected to survive, according to press reports.

The Boston Red Sox released a statement saying that the team was offering its prayers and thoughts and hoped for a speedy recovery.

The injury has sparked a lot of conversation and editorializing online about the dangers – and need for better safety – at ballparks, including the need for expanded netting, similar to the barriers put up at hockey games.

Mark Carpenter also thanked everyone that expressed well wishes and prayers for Tonya Carpenter, the doctors who were helping her, and all of the fans and first responders who assisted in giving her aid at the game.

“They are truly the angels who should be thanked, because of you, Aidan will continue to have a mother,” he wrote.