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Weekend Hot Clicks: Angels' Emotional No-Hitter Caps Fitting Tribute for Tyler Skaggs

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.