A baby girl is hospitalized after being hit on the head by a softball.
McKenna Hovenga, 7-weeks-old, was hit while her dad was playing in Shell Rock, Iowa.
She is now being treated at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., according to the Waverly Courier.
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The Family say that they were watching a men’s softball game this week, when the center fielder overthrew the ball to the third baseman, the ball went over the fence and hit the mother and 1-month-old baby.
Waverly Police say that an ambulance was called around 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday night to transport the baby.
The Family says that baby McKenna was hit in the head by a stray softball. Her mother, Kassy Hovenga says it was a ‘freak accident’.
Hovenga says that her daughter has a fractured skull and two blood clots in her brain that are causing her to have seizures.
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