LA coroner: Ex-Yankees pitcher Irabu hung self

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County coroner’s officials say former New York Yankees pitcher Hideki Irabu died by hanging himself.

Assistant Coroner Chief Ed Winter said the 42-year-old Irabu’s cause of death was hanging, and the mode was suicide. Irabu did not leave a note.

Winter says a friend found Irabu dead in his home in the wealthy Los Angeles suburb of Rancho Palos Verdes on Wednesday afternoon.