LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Dodgers say they’re studying how to improve the protective netting after a young girl was hit in the head by a liner from slugger Cody Bellinger.
The fan was hit on Sunday and taken to a hospital for precautionary tests. On Monday, the team said in a statement that it began looking last offseason into how the netting at Dodger Stadium could be reconfigured.
The team said it will put the recommended changes into effect and extend the netting. The Dodgers provided no timeline or details on possible changes.
The girl was sitting four rows from the field along the first-base line, just beyond the netting that extends to the end of the visiting dugout. The Dodgers didn’t identify the girl, who was alert and answering questions after the incident in the first inning.
A woman died last August after being struck in the head by a foul ball at Dodger Stadium.
FRISCO, Texas — The Dallas Stars acquired right wing Ryan Hartman from the Philadelphia Flyers for center Tyler Pitlick.
The trade was announced on Monday, two days after the end of the NHL draft and a week before the start of free agency.
Hartman had 12 goals and 14 assists while playing 83 regular-season games last season. He played 64 games for Nashville before getting traded to Philadelphia, where he played 19 more.
The 24-year-old Hartman has 42 goals and 47 assists in 245 career games over five seasons with Chicago, Nashville and Philadelphia. He was the 30th overall pick when Chicago drafted him in the first round in 2013.
CHICAGO — The Chicago Blackhawks acquired defenseman Calvin de Haan in a trade with the Carolina Hurricanes.
The Blackhawks also received minor league forward Aleksi Saarela from the Hurricanes in exchange for defenseman Gustav Forsling and goaltender Anton Forsberg.
SAN FRANCISCO — A former top Sacramento Kings executive was sentenced on Monday to seven years in prison for siphoning $13.4 million from the team.
Jeffrey David, 44, the team’s former chief revenue officer, pleaded guilty in December to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.
David diverted the sponsorship payments of five companies to a bank account he controlled, using the money to buy and remodel Southern California beachfront properties and pay off credit card bills.
“The brazen scheme involved forgeries, stolen corporate executive identities, money laundering and even instructing a former colleague to destroy evidence,” U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott said in a statement. “Today’s sentence should deter others from committing substantial frauds such as this one.”
David’s lawyer, Mark Reichel, disagreed with the sentence from U.S. District Judge William Shubb.
“We see no appropriate purpose served by a sentence this lengthy,” Reichel wrote in an email, citing David’s “tremendous life work” before and after his crimes as cause for a reduced sentence.
“The Kings received back every single penny of the previously purloined money, and Mr. David worked very hard to make sure that happened. He is tremendously remorseful,” Reichel said.
The Kings have received over $13.2 million in restitution to date, according to the Department of Justice.
David is scheduled to begin his sentence on Aug. 20.
Tiger Woods removed from for wrongful death lawsuit
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Tiger Woods is no longer a defendant in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the parents of a drunken driver who died in a car crash.
Attorneys for the parents of Nicholas Immesberger filed an amended complaint Friday in Palm Beach County court dropping Woods from the suit. The complaint still targets The Woods restaurant in Jupiter, in which the pro golfer is an investor, and restaurant general manager Erica Herman, who is in a relationship with Woods.
The lawsuit filed in May says Immesberger, who worked at The Woods, was served excessive amounts of alcohol before the Dec. 10 crash. It says Herman recruited Immesberger as a bartender there despite knowing he was an alcoholic. It alleges restaurant employees, managers and owners let Immesberger drive after being over-served alcohol.