“Right now, he’d be saying, ‘We’re nasty.’”
After nine innings of baseball that probably felt like a thousand, the reporters in Dallas asked the Angels how Tyler Skaggs would have felt about the 9–4 win his teammates had secured over Texas. Through the tears, a brief moment of levity broke through—a dozen men in red hoodies, suddenly laughing, despite all the pain they carried for the man they’d called a friend who was suddenly gone.
“There was nobody happier to win a ballgame than Skaggs,” said Justin Upton. “Every time he came off the mound and he’d just got done pitching, he’d stay in the dugout and pump the guys up.