More than 100 Major League Baseball fans are injured on average every year when balls go flying into the stands, according to a new report.

At least 808 fans around the country were beaned by foul balls and home runs, or injured scrambling for balls knocked into the stands, from 2012 to 2019, NBC News concluded by examining lawsuits, news reports, social media accounts and data from stadium first aid stations.

Some of the injuries detailed in the report are serious.

“My wife heard it,” recalled Dwayne Sowa, who was struck on the right temple by a foul ball while trying to get a beer vendor’s attention at a 2014 Philadelphia Phillies game. “It was the worst noise she’s ever heard — the crack of my skull.”

Sowa needed surgery to fix a crushed bone above his right eye, and still has lingering side effects more than five years later.

In 2015, MLB recommended that teams expand netting to run 70 feet down the foul lines from home plate, but few teams did so.

When a little girl was clocked in the face by a foul ball rocketed off the bat of Todd Frazier at Yankee Stadium in 2017, the holdouts fell in line for the 2018 season.

But the injuries have continued.

In 2018, a 79-year-old woman was killed by a foul ball that struck her in the head at Dodger Stadium.

The shifting nature of America’s pastime is partly to blame.

The average number of foul balls and home runs per game is on the rise, and stronger pitchers and batters than the game has ever seen are sending balls jumping off the bat in excess of 100 miles per hour.

But most of the league’s 30 teams are also dragging their feet on expanding protections for fans.

The Chicago White Sox and Atlanta Braves announced this season that they would extend netting all the way to the foul pole, and the Phillies told NBC they would follow suit by next season.

Ten other teams have also vowed an extension by Opening Day 2020.

But the other 17 teams — including the Yankees and Mets — have not announced any plans to expand their netting from its current boundaries.