Two weeks after Tyler Skaggs passed away, the Angels honored him on Friday night, their first home game since his death. It was an emotional, impossible-to-script night that began with Tyler’s mother Debbie throwing a strike on the first pitch and ended with three pitchers combining for the organization’s 11th all-time no-hitter (and first in seven years). Every Angels player wore a No. 45 "Skaggs" jersey in the 13-0 win over the Mariners.
“It all started with Debbie’s first pitch,” Taylor Cole, the starter, said. “Threw it right down the middle.