Posted on 07/01/2019 2:10:19 PM PDT by Rastus
Tyler Skaggs, Los Angeles Angels pitcher, passed away this morning, the team announced. Skaggs was in Texas, where the Angels were scheduled to begin their four game series against the Texas Rangers today. Tonight’s game between the Rangers and Angels has been canceled.
This is tragic news for the Angels and the MLB community. Skaggs, 27, was a Southern California native who was born in Woodland Hills and graduated from Santa Monica High School. He was originally drafted by the Arizona Diamondbacks, but returned home to the Angels in a trade in the 2013-14 offseason. He has spent parts of the last four seasons in the Angels rotation, including making 15 starts this year for the Angels.
Our thoughts go out to the Angels baseball family.
Didn’t a well-known pitcher for the Cardinals die mid-season about 15 years ago?
The sound was so loud when the ball rebounded to the pitcher that he assumed it had stuck the bat, fielded it and threw to first base for what they presumed was an out.
Of course, moments later, they knew it was a hit batsman. After Chapman was helped off the field and taken to a hospital (where he died 12 hours later), he was replaced with a pinch runner and Cleveland proceeded to beat the Yankees 4-3.
I know it sounds cold, but that is the way baseball dealt with such tragedies 99 years ago.
I see my question was already answered by some earlier posts.
Unusual but natural. I had a recruit die during pt when I was a drill instructor. He was 19 or 20. It was several weeks into boot camp. He had a heart defect that was undetected. So those saying it was some illicit drug should probably wait till the autopsy is done.
Usually, but the stress these guys put their bodies under is extreme. Some bodies just, “break.” We would see this a couple times a year in the ER. They just “drop.”
It seems numerous athletes have heart defects.
I wonder if there’s some correlation between the defect and making it as an athlete. Like you can push harder and longer, but then you pop...
My mom had a friend in high-school who had an undiagnosed congenital heart defect and dropped dead on the basketball court at 18. It was big news at the time. It’s not common, but it happens.
He was only 28.
He had horrible heart disease.
Apparently he had been having chest pain for some time, but wasn't checked out.
The coroner found he had "the arteries of a 60 year old man".
In this era of multi-million dollar athletes, they do extensive physical exams before you can even get a contract approved.
If Skaggs even had a hint of chest discomfort, they would have certainly worked him up.
The other case I remember was Hank Gaithers, but apparently he stopped taking his medication, and that’s probably why he collapsed on the court.
There’s the picture of Dick Butkus frantically waving his arms trying to get medical attention, but according to what I heard, he was dead when he hit the ground.
Wife got a call yesterday that the husband of her best friend passed away from a Heart Attack. He was in his early fifties, in great shape, so it’s quite a shock.
Don't even go there..........
He stupidly stopped taking his beta-blocker, because he thought it was "slowing him down".
Then there's Len Bias.
But he was on cocaine.
One of 7452 other Americans that will die today. RIP to all of them.
Bias must have had some underlying heart condition that combined with the Coke caused his death. I still find it heard to believe that Coke alone would kill somebody that young, without some other things in play.
When you capitalize it like that, I’m tempted to blame New Coke. The timing is about right.
I've seen and treated many normal people who used these drugs.
The coronaries are clean, but they get clamped down with coke usage.
Still causes the same pattern of EKG changes, and still needs immediate intervention.
The patients die from ischemia to the myocardium.
Whether from atherosclerosis, or the acute blockage caused by drug use.
Birthday July 13th.
2 weeks before his 28th b’day 7/13
A very dear friend of mine died in her sleep.
Some kind of brain thing I heard.
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