There were no chest pains or palpitations, but bullpen coach Scott Radinsky knew something was wrong as he walked up the long flight of stairs from the Oakland Coliseum dugout to the Angels’ clubhouse after a 5-1 win over the A’s on April 13.
“I just felt weird,” Radinsky said Tuesday. “I sat down in my chair, and I didn’t feel right.”
Radinsky notified the team’s trainers, who summoned the A’s team doctor. The Angels flew to Minnesota that evening to continue a 10-game, three-city trip. Radinsky went to a local hospital.
Upon returning to Southern California, tests determined that two main arteries in his heart were blocked, the damage caused by the aggressive radiation treatments the former big league reliever underwent for Hodgkin’s disease in 1994.