Dylan Hernandez: Skaggs' story is hard hit for Angels, MLB
by Dylan Hernandez, Los Angeles Times
Aug 31, 2019
3 minutes
ANAHEIM, Calif._The night continues to defy explanation. In their first home game after Tyler Skaggs' death, the Angels pitched a combined no-hitter.
From the collective grief emerged the kind of miracle rarely observed outside of sports, starting with Skaggs' mother delivering a strike on her ceremonial first pitch and ending with the Angels spontaneously covering the mound with the No. 45 jerseys they wore in honor of the deceased pitcher.
The inconceivable sequence of
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