Anaheim Angels Pitcher Nick Adenhart Killed in Car Accident
Baseball, Death April 9th. 2009, 11:16am
“TMZ has learned Los Angeles Angels starting pitcher Nick Adenhart was killed in a felony hit-and-run car accident in Fullerton, California early this morning — hours after he pitched in a game last night. Cops say someone driving a minivan blew through a red light, causing the Mitsubishi that Adenhart was riding in to hit a light pole. Three people were killed in the crash, including Nick.” (TMZ)
More can be found here. Adenhart pitched six scoreless innings last night in only his fourth career start.
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April 9th, 2009 at 11:18 am
wow that sucks…just another reason to buy american though
/bright side’d
April 9th, 2009 at 11:20 am
holy shit…that’s terrible.
April 9th, 2009 at 11:21 am
Terrible.
April 9th, 2009 at 11:21 am
How is this not on ESPN or MLB.com yet? The Angels team page is still all about how well Adenhart did last night.
April 9th, 2009 at 11:22 am
Horrific. The picture on TMZ is just brutal. Dude in the minivan had to be flying…
April 9th, 2009 at 11:22 am
awful awful awful
April 9th, 2009 at 11:24 am
story’s barely 25 minutes old
April 9th, 2009 at 11:24 am
Can’t believe that no major outlet has gotten this yet…
April 9th, 2009 at 11:25 am
because harvey levin hasnt wrote it on his greaseboard yet?
April 9th, 2009 at 11:25 am
story’s barely 25 minutes old
/Tooting own horn
Sad story.
April 9th, 2009 at 11:25 am
damn. That pic of the Eclipse was bad
April 9th, 2009 at 11:26 am
There’s still time for ESPN to be first with this story.
April 9th, 2009 at 11:26 am
Horrific. The picture on TMZ is just brutal. Dude in the minivan had to be flying…
that Mitsbishi was eclipsed….
Seriously, this is terrible. TMZ said another person from the organization was with him and died. My guess is it may be another player
/sad
April 9th, 2009 at 11:27 am
Truly awful.
April 9th, 2009 at 11:27 am
Sportsline has it. http://www.cbssports.com/
April 9th, 2009 at 11:28 am
I’m sure the major outlets are trying to confirm it first themselves, and TMZ.com doesn’t exactly qualify as a legitimate source.
They don’t want to have a PFT/Bradshaw moment on their hands, I’m sure.
April 9th, 2009 at 11:29 am
wow i just looked at the pictue again…hopefully the offending driver gets like 30 yrs in jail. there is no excuse for driving that fast.
April 9th, 2009 at 11:30 am
Yeah, a Cobalt would’ve escaped scratch-free.
/you’re dumb’d
April 9th, 2009 at 11:30 am
also, the major outlets can’t really do anything without the AP story.
i suppose they could put up one re-written paragraph of the TMZ story. but i guess it’s on the radio or being talked about somewhere, because he’s already at the top of google trends
http://www.google.com/trends
April 9th, 2009 at 11:31 am
I just want to see “TMZ reports…” on ESPN’s scroll.
April 9th, 2009 at 11:32 am
Not a week for the Angels.
April 9th, 2009 at 11:32 am
That car is absolutely fucked up. Hit and run too. Jeez.
April 9th, 2009 at 11:32 am
was the driver DUI?
April 9th, 2009 at 11:33 am
because i was completely serious
/get over yourself’d
April 9th, 2009 at 11:35 am
22 years old…im 5 years older than this kid…fucking sad.
April 9th, 2009 at 11:35 am
i love google trends.
April 9th, 2009 at 11:36 am
ESPN radio has it now
April 9th, 2009 at 11:39 am
TBL had it first!
April 9th, 2009 at 11:41 am
Clown had it first
April 9th, 2009 at 11:41 am
actually his brother TMZ had it first.
April 9th, 2009 at 11:44 am
LOL!
ok, more positive stuff in the roundup. no depression. some reader sent that in today, it did get me down for about 30 seconds.
upbeat? all 3 of my fantasy teams are off to good starts 3 days in. won big on the unc bet.
/TBL’d
April 9th, 2009 at 11:44 am
I guess they did catch the guy who did it. So there’s that.
April 9th, 2009 at 11:45 am
how do you segway to a different story if your the espn anchor? wouldnt be hard to say all your stupid catch phrases after hearing that story?
April 9th, 2009 at 11:45 am
lets boil his balls and feed them to him!
/just picked up a pitchfork
April 9th, 2009 at 11:47 am
yeah!
/just lit a torch
April 9th, 2009 at 11:47 am
fucking terrible. very sad.
April 9th, 2009 at 11:48 am
peter gammons is gonna turn this into a way to talk about the red sox or yankees somehow.
April 9th, 2009 at 11:54 am
They usually go to break immediately following these kinds of stories, no outro music, just shuffling their papers solemnly. Then they go back to telling each other which female intern jerked them off the night before.
/Tirico’d
April 9th, 2009 at 11:56 am
wow, ESPN already removed him from the FA pool in fantasy…that was quick.
April 9th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
wow, ESPN already removed him from the FA pool in fantasy…that was quick.
You’re Dead to me!!
/Corleone’d
April 9th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
a fan died at an angels game earlier this week
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-angels-fan-dead9-2009apr09,0,5769572.story
April 9th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
a fan died at an angels game earlier this week
you can say that again
Tampa Bo Says:
April 9th, 2009 at 11:32 am
http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/story/11608733
April 9th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Ok, this is f’d up. I picked him up for one of my fantasy teams this morning. Apparently, he was already dead. I also had Kile on my team when he died, and had Lidle on my team the year he died.
Nobody wants to be on my fantasy teams.
April 9th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Jay V pick up papplebon
April 9th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Does Pedro Martinez wait a day to call?
April 9th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
+1
April 9th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
total of 3 people died, 1 in critical condition in this hit and run attempt on 2 cars.
April 9th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
driver:
http://www.tmz.com/2009/04/09/person-who-drove-adenhart-so-cal-girl/
sad.
April 9th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
enjoy prison
http://www.tmz.com/2009/04/09/this-is-the-guy-who-caused-the-adenhart-crash/
April 9th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
taking your mom’s minivan out for a spin while drunk is all fun and games until you kill a couple people. he should be put to death.
April 9th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
hope he’s not an illegal imigrant or lou dobbs is gonna straight merk that dude.
April 9th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
One of my first thoughts: “odd to see a pro athlete be the victim of a DUI fatality, and not the perp.”
April 10th, 2009 at 1:13 am
Joba wishes he was just wasn’t hurt. This is what happens with DUIs. Other people suffer. My thoughts and prayers go out to the family and to the Anaheim organization. I have lost a best friends (all teammates in parts of my life) to gettin hit by a car, bad blood transfusion, and a driver who was drunk and my friend being thrown from the vehicle. Can’t explain any of it but none of them were older than 30 (tainted blood) and it is very difficult to deal with when it happens suddenely.