A young baseball player at Dwyer Stadium took a line drive to the head a few minutes ago and Mercy medics are responding. City firefighters are on scene. The Michael Napoleone Foundation baseball tournament is being played there again today.
UPDATE 1:30 p.m.: The boy is being transported to UMMC. City fire is back in service.
UPDATE 1:36 p.m.: The patient is a 12-year-old boy who was accidentally struck in his right eye with a baseball. He suffered no loss of consciousness and has no nausea, only pain at the injury site, said to be a "4 out of 10."
UPDATE 1:41 p.m.: He has no loss of vision.
