NEW YORK -- A foul ball off the bat of the Yankees' Todd Frazier struck a young girl sitting in the stands Wednesday, seriously injuring the child and leaving players and fans visibly unsettled, reports say.

The incident renewed calls for the Yankees to extend the protective netting in front of fans farther down the baselines.

According to the New York Times, the stadium grew quiet as people realized what happened. The game was stopped for about four to five minutes in the fifth inning after fans sitting near the girl immediately began signaling for help.

Frazier knelt at home plate and was clearly upset, and players from both teams also were emotional, with some in tears as people rushed to help the girl.

"I thought of my kids," Frazier, reportedly with tears in his eyes after the game, told USA Today. "I have two kids under 3 years old and I just hope she's all right. I know the dad or whoever it was that was with them was trying their hardest, but the ball's coming at 120 miles an hour at them and the ball's hooking. So it's like if you've never seen a ball like that, which most people in the world haven't, it's very tough."

Fans react as a young girl is carried out of the seating area in Yankee Stadium after she was hit by a line drive Wednesday during the fifth inning.

The Times reports family members of the girl spoke briefly with the media at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia Hospital, saying it was too early to tell if she will need surgery. There were no reports on her condition.

The ball that hit the girl was traveling at 105 mph, reports say.

The netting at Yankee Stadium ends at the home-plate side of each dugout. Six weeks earlier, the Yankees had said the team was "seriously considering" extending the netting on each side for next season.

"We've been trying to get these teams to put nets up," Twins second baseman Brian Dozier said after the game, USA Today reports. "Number one, you don't bring kids down there. And number two, every stadium needs to have nets. That's it. I don't care about the damn view of the fan or what. It's all about safety. I still have a knot in my stomach."

The Indians extended the protective netting at Progressive Field to the end of each team's dugout near home plate before the 2016 season, following recommendations from Major League Baseball.

"It remains an ongoing discussion in the industry,'' MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said at Safeco Field in Seattle on Wednesday, ESPN reports. "We gave some guidelines two years ago, and what we have done since then is that we have encouraged the individual clubs to engage in a localized process, look at their own stadiums -- every stadium's different -- and to try to make a good decision about how far the netting should go in order to promote fan safety."