'It felt like ... it was what Tyler would want,” Angels general manager Billy Eppler said.
“The first day back, whether it was today or tomorrow, was going to be one of the toughest, other than yesterday,” Ausmus said. “So I think Billy hit the nail on the head in a sense that the game itself can be a refuge for the players where they can turn their minds off and focus on baseball. I don’t know that sitting in a hotel room would do them any good.”
“We lost a member of our family yesterday,” Eppler said. “Tyler Skaggs was a teammate, a brother, a friend, and, most important of all, he was a husband and a son. He was an exceptional young man with an entire life so full of promise yet to live. For some reason that is incomprehensible to all of us, he lives on now only in our minds and in our hearts.
The Angels had black patches with the number 45 sewn over the hearts of their uniform jerseys, and the Rangers planned to have a moment of silence in memory of Skaggs before the game. The grounds crew painted No. 45 behind the mound.
The makeshift memorial, filled with flowers, balloons, stuffed animals and heartfelt messages from fans, that quickly sprung up around the mound outside the stadium’s main entrance after the accident remained all season. A similar memorial for Skaggs was begun Monday and grew Tuesday.
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