FORT WORTH, Texas — An opiate addict and dealer operating in the bowels of Angel Stadium, where he worked handling press inquiries, provided to a starting pitcher a fentanyl-laced pill that led him to aspirate vomit and die during a road trip to Texas in 2019, a jury in Fort Worth found on Thursday.
Tyler Skaggs, hiding his own use of oxycodone from relatives, died facedown with his legs hanging off a bed at a Southlake Hilton hotel where he and 66 other Los Angeles Angels players and other employees stayed the night before a series with the Rangers was to begin.