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Testimony heard a second time in lawsuit involving Sluggerrr hot dog toss

Sluggerrr took the stand again Tuesday.

At one point Byron Shores, who portrayed the Kansas City Royals’ mascot for 14 years, held up a foil-wrapped hot dog and identified it as similar to the dog he threw during a 2009 Royals game as part of a between-innings promotion.

That dog, according to baseball fan and plaintiff John Coomer, hit him in in the left eye, resulting in a detached retina, a later cataract procedure and a likely lifetime of monitoring possible glaucoma.

“It was never my intention to drill somebody,” Shores said of his toss, which was part of the Royals’ Hot Dog Launch.