MLB: Angels No-Hitter The Latest “Bigger Than Baseball Moment”

MLB can be beyond poetic. The game can shine a light during the darker and more difficult times of life. Moments occur that seem like they have to be coincidental, but end up being fate.

MLB players use their performance as a way to express emotion. After all, sports are an athlete’s platform to express themselves.

The Angel’s franchise, Major League Baseball, and the whole sports community were still suffering from the tragic, mysterious, and sudden loss of Los Angeles Angels starting pitcher Tyler Skaggs.

Skaggs, who was only 27, was originally drafted by the Angels in 2009 and returned to the club in December 2013.

On Friday, July 12th, baseball’s latest poem was written.

The Los Angeles Angels threw a combined no-hitter and defeated the Seattle Mariners, 13-0.

The whole team was wearing their forever teammates’ jersey, “Skaggs, #45.”

They felt him in the stadium during their first home game since losing Skaggs. He was honored by the team, his mother threw out the first pitcher, and his face is displayed along a portion of the outfield wall.

Mike Trout, this generation’s superstar, has been the voice of the Angels and has done an outstanding job, treating the situation with immense humility and respect.

“You can’t make this stuff up,” Mike Trout would tell a crowd of reporters, “I’m speechless.”

Trout is not wrong. This cannot be made up.

Despite that, this has not been the first time baseball has flashed its poetic side. Here are three other instances when baseball has shown to be a very special sport.