Hot-Dog Injury Case Goes to Extra Innings

In the legal equivalent of a two-out, two-strike, bottom-of-the-ninth-inning homer, John Coomer, the spectator struck in the eye by a hot dog launched by the Kansas City Royals mascot, has been granted a new trial in the case.

In March 2011, Coomer was found 100 percent at fault by a jury that sided with the Royals and Byron Shores, who played the role of Sluggerrr from February 1996 to October 2009. Both had argued that Shores was adequately trained and that Coomer assumed the risk of injury when he sat six rows behind the third-base dugout.

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