Girl hit by foul ball stable, but 'it's going to be a long process'

The little girl struck in the head by a foul ball Wednesday at Yankee Stadium is in stable condition, a family member said Friday, though she remains in hospital in upper Manhattan as a lengthy recovery looms.

"She's stable. It's going to be a long process," a family member, who didn’t give his name, told Khristina Narizhnaya of the New York Post.

In the wake of Wednesday's harrowing ordeal - the girl was carried out of the stadium after being hit by an 105-mph line drive off the bat of Todd Frazier - the Cincinnati Reds, San Diego Padres, and Seattle Mariners have vowed to extend the protective netting at their stadiums for next year, while New York City politicians have put public pressure on the Yankees to do the same.

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"This is a terrible tragedy, we're going to take a hard look at whether teams should extend this netting further to protect fans," Seth Stein, a spokesman for New York mayor Bill de Blasio, told Christian Red and Peter Botte of the New York Daily News.

In May, New York City councilman Rafael Espinal Jr. introduced a bill that would require stadiums of 5,000 or more seats to install protective netting that extends from home plate to the foul pole on either side of the outfield.