[compugeek_610]

He made his debut in last nights game against oakland and pinched 6 shutout innings and this morning his life was taken by a drunk driver.

Terrible news out of California this morning, where we've just learned that the Angels rookie Nick Adenhart was killed in an early morning hit-and-run accident in Fullerton on Thursday.

The news was first reported by TMZ and later confirmed by Yahoo! Sports baseball columnist Tim Brown.

Just 22 years old, Adenhart started for Los Angeles on Wednesday night and struck out five batters over six scoreless innings in a 6-4 loss to Oakland. It was only the fourth start of his young career and first since earning the third spot in the Angels' rotation over spring training.

According to reports, Adenhart was driving home with three others in his silver Mitsubishi when a mini-van ran through a red light and hit Adenhart's car, causing it to crash into a light pole. A female driver and male passenger died on the scene while Adenhart was taken to the hospital where he died undergoing surgery, according to a spokesman from the UC-Irvine Medical Center. The driver of the mini-van fled the scene, but was later apprehended by police. No other members of the Angels' organization were involved.

This is the most tragic news you can imagine in the baseball world and our thoughts go out to Adenhart's family and the entire Angels' organization, which was already reeling from the death of a fan who was involved in a fight on Opening Day.

[akosnitzky]

Wirelessly posted (Its All About the U!)

terrible

[bigbda1]

A real tragedy. Another innocent life taken by a drunk driver. Really sad.

[afterburnX]

Truly a sad day, I went to their game on Saturday when they played the Padres. I live about 30 secs from where the accident took place in Fullerton. Sad to see him do a great job in the game and all of a sudden he is gone!

[Backnblack]

He went to a local HS here....Too young.....

[SteveO86]

Truly tragic.. had so much going for him. I had few close friends of mine hit by a drunk driver so I could imagine what the family is going threw.

Only 22....

[TeritaM]

its sad. they're supposedly keeping the driver locked up until the trial.