{"id":43645,"date":"2025-05-21T11:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T11:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/43645\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T11:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T11:48:10","slug":"man-hit-in-the-eye-by-foul-ball-sues-rockies-blames-teams-poor-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/43645\/","title":{"rendered":"Man hit in the eye by foul ball sues Rockies, blames team\u2019s poor performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Parker man this week sued the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/sports\/mlb\/colorado-rockies\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Rockies<\/a> for negligence after he was struck in the face with a foul ball while sitting in a Coors Field luxury box \u2014 in part blaming the team\u2019s poor performance for the injury.<\/p>\n<p>Timothy Roeckel suffered \u201ccatastrophic and permanent injuries\u201d when he was hit in the face and right eye by a foul ball during the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2023\/07\/16\/rockies-yankees-score-alan-trejo-homer\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rockies\u2019 July 16, 2023, game<\/a> against the New York Yankees, attorneys for Denver firm Nielsen Weisz wrote in the lawsuit filed Monday in Denver District Court.<\/p>\n<p>He was a guest of the box owner and did not pay for a ticket.<\/p>\n<p>The foul ball was hit by a Rockies batter in the bottom of the first inning, and Roeckel couldn\u2019t see it coming because of \u201carchitectural elements including the ceiling of the luxury box and the overhang of the stadium\u2019s bleacher seats,\u201d the lawsuit states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was not physically possible for (Roeckel) to see the foul ball from the seat in question,\u201d his attorneys wrote.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2025\/05\/20\/colorado-rockies-foul-ball-lawsuit-yankees-denver\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full story from our partners at The Denver Post<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>More Colorado Rockies coverage:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Parker man this week sued the Colorado Rockies for negligence after he was struck in the face&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2405],"tags":[4704,635,4705,4706,4707,5,4708,1004,1487,3995,167,52,4316,4703,4,168],"class_list":{"0":"post-43645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-rockies","8":"tag-aaron-munoz","9":"tag-alan-trejo","10":"tag-andy-gonzalez","11":"tag-anthony-molina","12":"tag-austin-gomber","13":"tag-baseball","14":"tag-brendan-rodgers","15":"tag-brenton-doyle","16":"tag-bud-black","17":"tag-cal-quantrill","18":"tag-colorado","19":"tag-colorado-rockies","20":"tag-coloradorockies","21":"tag-elias-diaz","22":"tag-mlb","23":"tag-rockies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114545669369249276","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}