Spectator injured by Green's flying bat

A fan was hospitalized after she was hit by Shawn Green's flying bat during Wednesday's game between the Arizona Diamondbacks and Florida Marlins.

Karen Wellmeyer of Boca Raton suffered a ruptured spleen and was in serious but stable condition at Jackson Memorial Hospital, according to her husband, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported on its Web site early yesterday.

John Wellmeyer told the Sun-Sentinel that the couple was sitting behind the first-base dugout at Dolphins Stadium when Green's bat sailed into the stands in the top of the fifth inning and struck his 37-year-old wife in the side. He said stadium ushers and a nurse sitting behind them helped his wife until paramedics arrived.