FILE - In this May 7, 1999, file photo, New York Yankees pitcher Hideki Irabu pitches to the Seattle Mariners in the first inning of a baseball at New York's Yankee Stadium. Irabu has been found dead at a home in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb of an apparent suicide, Los Angeles County sheriff's Sgt. Mike Arriaga said Thursday, July 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Osumu Honda, File)