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What: “SportsCenter Flashback: 1986 ALCS, Game 5”

Where: ESPN Classic, Tuesday, 4 p.m.

The Angels were one pitch away from their first World Series. That pitch, a split-fingered fastball low and away, was delivered by reliever Donnie Moore. Dave Henderson of the Boston Red Sox hit it out of Anaheim Stadium for a two-run home run in Game 5 of the 1986 American League championship series. The Red Sox ended up winning the game in the 11th inning, and eventually won the series.

This one-hour documentary focuses on Moore, who committed suicide three years after giving up the home run.

Viewers will learn about Moore and his troubled life. His wife of 17 years, Tonya, whom Moore shot three times the day he committed suicide in July 1989, is interviewed at length. So are friends of Moore who tried to help him with his anger. They and Tonya talk about how Moore physically abused her.

On June 12, 1989, Moore was released by the Kansas City Royals after he had been assigned to their Omaha club. Tonya had finally left him. Five weeks later, they met at their home, ostensibly to meet with a realtor. That’s where Moore shot Tonya, then shot himself, right in front of his two sons, while his daughter was taking his injured wife to a hospital.

“I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to understand the size of the time bomb,” says Don Sutton, a former teammate. “I was stunned because I did not know that person. It was almost like somebody had taken his name. It never would have entered my mind to predict that his life would end the way it did.”

Tonya says she learned that her husband was dead by watching television from her hospital bed.

“I could seen them bring him out of my house in a green bag,” she says.

Tonya, according to the documentary, has been in and out of psychiatric institutions since her husband’s suicide. She says it was not the home-run pitch to Henderson or the way he handled it that led to his suicide.

She says it was how the fans and the media handled it.