Baseball mourned the loss of one of the game's most promising young pitchers yesterday after Los Angeles Angels right-hander Nick Adenhart, a 22-year-old from Hagerstown, Md., was killed along with two others in an early morning hit-and-run automobile accident in Fullerton, Calif. He was killed just hours after making a successful 2009 season debut.

Adenhart, 22, died after the Mitsubishi Eclipse in which he was riding with three other people was struck by a minivan that allegedly ran a red light not far from Angel Stadium, where Adenhart had thrown six scoreless innings in the Angels' loss to the Oakland Athletics. Two people in the Mitsubishi were pronounced dead at the scene, while Adenhart and a fourth person were taken to a nearby hospital.

The minivan's driver, identified by police as Andrew Thomas Gallo, 22, of Riverside, Calif., left the scene by foot but was apprehended nearby. Gallo, who according to police was driving on a suspended license from a previous conviction for driving under the influence, was booked on three counts of murder, three counts of vehicular manslaughter, felony hit-and-run and felony driving under the influence of alcohol.  (Source:  Washington Post)

I have an idea for the asshole drunk driver that killed Nick.  Next time you want to drive drunk, run a red light and kill someone stop and think first.  Then get out of your car, put it on cruise control, run out into the middle of the intersection and get ran over and killed by your own car.  This way some loser that no one will miss gets killed by a car instead of a kid with a bright future. I'm sure everyone saw the very emotional press conference the Angels had.  I was very impressed with what his agent Scott Boras had to say and how emotional he got.  This came as a shock to me as well as the rest of the baseball world who previously were under the impression that Scott Boras was born with out a soul.