Casares v. Mercy St. Vincent Med. Ctr.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the risk of being struck by a baseball is an inherent risk a spectator assumes when attending a pregame warm-up
• holding that “it is undisputed that the warmup is part of the sport, that spectators . . . purposely attend that portion of the event, and that the Mariners permit ticket holders to view the warm-up.”
• affirming the admission of a professional pitching coach's testimony in a negligence action brought by a spectator injured by an errant warm-up pitch because the coach was \highly qualified to address why and how the athletes prepare for games\
• “The fact that no one has been injured simply shows that long toss does not pose an unreasonable risk.”
• \The fact that no one has been injured simply shows that long toss does not pose an unreasonable risk.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).