Harvey and three former teammates said they received pills from Eric Kay, the former Angels communications director accused of supplying the drugs that killed Tyler Skaggs.
FORT WORTH — Pills passed between players and team employees. Teammates did anything they could to work through injuries and keep themselves on the field. On the sixth day of the trial of Eric Kay, a former Angels employee, over his role in the death of pitcher Tyler Skaggs, Matt Harvey and three other former Angels players took the stand and said they had received oxycodone from Kay.
The eventful day, in which four former players, a toxicologist, an expert in drug diversion and Skaggs’s wife, Carli, all testified, ended with the prosecution resting its case. Kay’s lawyers will begin his defense on Wednesday.
Kay, a former communications director for the Angels, is accused of providing Tyler Skaggs with fentanyl, an opioid that led to the pitcher’s death in a hotel room in the Dallas area in 2019, two weeks shy of Skaggs’s 28th birthday.
Prosecutors have argued that Skaggs’s death came as a result of a pill or pills he received from Kay that were disguised to look like oxycodone but that were actually fentanyl, a far stronger opioid. A medical examiner testified earlier in the trial that fentanyl was the most likely cause of Skaggs’s death, and that belief was echoed on Tuesday by Dr. Stacey Hail, an emergency medicine expert and toxicologist.
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