新華社の記事；
NYT掲載のAPの記事；
Hong Kong player hit by stray bullet in Venezuela baseball worldsEnglish.news.cn 2010-08-14 11:57:30
CARACAS, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- The women's baseball world championships were forced to suspended on Friday as a Hong Kong player was hit in the leg by a stray bullet during the match.
The incident occurred while the Hong Kong team was playing the Netherlands in a stadium at the Fort Tiuna military base. It wasn't clear from where the bullet was fired.
Venezuelan Vice President Elias Jaua said the injury was not serious and the games in Caracas were suspended while the police investigate what happened.
Editor: Wang Guanqun
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/sports/2010-08/14/c_13444700.htm
新華社の記事では「弾が何処から飛んできたのか明らかではなかった」とあるが、香港の新聞によると、球場近くのスラム街でやくざ同士の銃撃戦があって、その流れ弾が球場に飛び込んだらしい。
August 15, 2010
Hong Kong Withdraws After Gunfire Incident
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSHong Kong pulled out of the women’s baseball World Cup in Venezuela, a day after one of its players was wounded by a stray bullet during a game.
Organizers also decided to move all remaining games to the central city of Maracay and away from the Fort Tiuna military base in Caracas where Cheuk Woon Yee of Hong Kong was wounded on Friday, Venezuela’s sports minister, Hector Rodriguez, said in a news conference.
Cheuk was accompanied by teammates on Saturday as she left a hospital where she was treated for the wound to her left calf, Venezuela’s information ministry said in a statement. (AP)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/sports/baseball/15sportsbriefs-hong-kong.html
球場への流れ弾は論外だが、球場からの流れ球ということだと、俺が子どもの頃は今よりも場外ホームランが多かった気がする。それが何時の間にか、ホームランというとフェンスぎりぎりのものが主流になってしまったような感がある。勿論、データに基づかない勝手な感想にすぎないが。
