For years, Los Angeles Angels executives ignored obvious signs of on-the-job drug abuse by a team public relations staffer until the employee provided a fatal dose of fentanyl to pitcher Tyler Skaggs six years ago, attorneys for the late hurler’s widow and parents told jurors Tuesday in a wrongful death lawsuit.

Defense attorneys were scheduled to tell jurors their side of the story Tuesday afternoon.

“Tyler Skaggs was a part of the Angels baseball family … He died because he made a reckless decision to take illicit drugs … Angels baseball did not know this and we wish he had told us about his problem so we could help him,” Angels attorney Todd Theodora told reporters during a lunch break Tuesday.

But plaintiffs’ attorney Shawn Holley said the 27-year-old pitcher “died alone in his hote

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