Nick Adenhart Dead

ANAHEIM- Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim starting pitcher and top prospect Nick Adenhart was killed Wednesday night hours after notching his first major league win. Adenhart was killed by an alleged drunk driver on a felony hit and run charge along with two others who were slain and one who was critically injured.

Adenhart, long touted as the top pitching prospect in the Angels organization and for a time all of baseball, came into the Angels organization out of high school at age 18. In his minor league career he posted a 3.87 ERA over 91 games, striking out 430, walking 206, and posting a 1.409 WHIP in 506.2 minor league innings. After a shaky cup of coffee in 2008 in which he gave up 12 runs in 12 innings while averaging three innings a start, Adenhart won a slot in the rotation out of spring training and figured to be a cog in LAA for years to come. His bright future came to a tragic end Wednesday after earning his major league win in which he allowed no runs in six innings, striking out five.

Adenhart's final major league numbers read 1-0, 6.00 ERA, 18 INN, 9 K, 16 BB