The widow of Tyler Skaggs, faced with evidence of her husband’s illicit drug use, again denied knowing about his opioid habit leading up to his death, but testified that she now understands why he relied on the pills as she returned to the stand Tuesday in the wrongful death trial against the Los Angeles Angels.

Carli Skaggs fought back tears as she echoed testimony from one of her husband’s former teammates about how the pressure of playing major league baseball has led players to turn to illicit opioids.

“I understand it, I’m not saying something is right or wrong,” Carli said. “I feel sad that that is what they felt like they needed to do. That they trusted each other to get clean pills.”

Carli added that her husband and the other former Angels players were unaware that former Angels

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