Jurors in the Tyler Skaggs wrongful death case against the Los Angeles Angels are facing dueling explanations for exactly which substance or mix of substances caused the pitcher’s death, as attorneys for both the ballclub and Skaggs’ family have offered opposing expert testimony in the ongoing trial.

A coroner’s report released more than six years ago found that Skaggs had the powerful painkillers fentanyl and oxycodone in his system, as well as alcohol, and had choked on his vomit before he died in a Texas hotel room at the beginning of a team road trip.

The fentanyl — which was inside a counterfeit oxycodone pill — was key to an earlier criminal trial against Eric Kay, the Angels communications staffer who had been providing Skaggs and other players with illicit opioids. That earlie

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