{"id":3692,"date":"2009-04-11T10:36:27","date_gmt":"2009-04-11T10:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3692"},"modified":"2025-09-26T02:51:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T02:51:48","slug":"how-the-la-angels-are-coping-withthe-death-of-their-young-pitcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3692","title":{"rendered":"How the L.A. Angels are coping with the death of their young pitcher"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>22 year old Nick Adenhart, killed with two other people by a hit and run drunk&nbsp; driver. He had pitched a strong game only a few hours earlier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A horrible tragedy, and every parent&#8217;s nightmare. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/11\/sports\/baseball\/11angels.html?th&amp;emc=th\"><font color=\"#800080\"><strong>Angels Resume Play After Adenhart\u2019s Death &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>It had been a draining 40 hours for the team, including a gut-wrenching team meeting Thursday in which Adenhart\u2019s father, Jim, haltingly spoke to the team about how important the club had been to his son. \u201cI haven\u2019t cried since I was 11, and I cried,\u201d Angels pitcher Joe Saunders said. \u201cTo see the emotion on his dad\u2019s face, it tears your heart apart.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dustin Moseley, a pitcher who shared with Adenhart some of the ups and downs of the climb to the major leagues, said the sudden death of someone that young \u201ctakes you out of that bubble you live in as a baseball person.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>22 year old Nick Adenhart, killed with two other people by a hit and run drunk&nbsp; driver. He had pitched a strong game only a few hours earlier. A horrible tragedy, and every parent&#8217;s nightmare. Angels Resume Play After Adenhart\u2019s Death &#8211; NYTimes.com It had been a draining 40 hours for the team, including a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10226,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692\/revisions\/10226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}