The game was not important. The team wasn’t there to have fun. They weren’t there to get away. They weren’t there to win. The Angels filed into the dugout after a moment of silence to honor the memory of Tyler Skaggs.
David Fletcher stepped up to the plate against the fearsome Cy Young candidate that was Mike Minor and saw 8 pitches prior to blooping a fly ball into shallow center and reaching 2nd. The grind would prove to be a precedent for the remainder of the game.
But it would get worse before it would get better; for Jose Suarez was battling with control issues and fielding miscues.