Nick Adenhart

Mike Scioscia Photo by Icon SMI Article by Thomas McKenney The longest name in sports franchise history has suffered a large share of personnel misfortunes due to a variety of causes on and off the diamond, yet they are still consistently expected not only to contend, but to win the American League West.  Why?   Two words: Mike Scioscia . Owning two World Series rings as a player (1981 and 1988) and another as Halo manager (2002), it can be argued that he is the best skipper in a...Read Full Story

The makeshift memorial in front of Angel Stadium's main entrance is about the size of a pitcher's mound now. Hats, stuffed animals, sparkling lights, rosary beads, inscribed baseballs and hand-lettered signs are all arranged in a neat circle around an easel that holds a painting of Nick Adenhart in mid-throw. In the Angels' clubhouse, Adenhart's locker is largely still how he left it on the night of April 8, from cap to shoes. His image and No. 34 adorn the outfield wall, where Jered Weaver...Read Full Story

Angels rookie pitcher Nick Adenhart, 22, was among three people killed in a crash at a Fullerton intersection early Thursday. He was killed along with another man and a woman, with another man was critically injured, in a three-vehicle crash blamed on a motorist who ran a red light at a Fullerton intersection, police said. One other person killed in the crash also was part of the Angels organization. Authorities withheld the names of the dead for hours, pending family notification. Police...Read Full Story

On the day before the World Series was to start in the Bronx, the Los Angeles Angels gathered in their clubhouse for the final time in 2009 and cleaned out their lockers. "There's always an amount of disappointment and emptiness when you don't reach that final level with a team you had very high expectations for," manager Mike Scioscia said on Tuesday. "We had enough to compete with any team that was out there." The epilogue to a long, tearstained season for the three-peat AL West champs...Read Full Story

Mike Scioscia, who guided the Los Angeles Angels through a difficult season after the death in a road accident of pitcher Nick Adenhart, was named American League Manager of the Year Wednesday. Colorado manager Jim Tracy was named National League Manager of the Year, and an hour later the Rockies announced Tracy had been rewarded with a three-year contract. It's the second time Scioscia has been named Manager of the Year. After the emotional loss early in the season of Adenhart, the Angels...Read Full Story