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.