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Span foul ball nails his mom

Here's your baseball oddity of the day: a foul ball off the bat of Minnesota's Denard Span hit his mother in the chest, as she watched from the Steinbrenner Field stands.

What are the chances? A foul ball off the bat of Minnesota's Denard Span hit his mother in the chest, as she watched from the Steinbrenner Field stands as the Twins traveled to Tampa to take on the Yankees.

Play was halted while Wanda Wilson was attended to by medics and Span. She was taken to the medical room at Steinbrenner Field before returning to her seat.

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