Angels’ Rendon to have wrist surgery, miss rest of season
SEATTLE » Los Angeles Angels third baseman Anthony Rendon will undergo surgery for a right wrist injury and miss the rest of the season, the team announced Friday.
Rendon reaggravated a previous injury to the wrist during Tuesday’s game against the Dodgers and has not played since. Rendon first injured the wrist in mid-May.
Angels head athletic trainer Mike Frostad said Rendon has a subluxation in which the wrist tendon comes out of the groove where it is meant to sit.
“More often than not, this injury ends up in surgery and we were expecting this to be the outcome,” Frostad said. “We were just trying to get through to the end of the year, and he was trying to get through the end of the year, and he just wasn’t able to get there.”
Rendon, 32, has played in 155 of the Angels’ 384 games during the first three seasons of the $245 million, seven-year deal he signed before the 2020 season.
Rendon batted .228 with five homers and 28 RBIs in 45 games this season. Last year, he was limited to 58 games and hit .240 with nine homers and 34 RBIs.
CUBS 1, BRAVES 0 » Chicago stopped Atlanta’s 14-game winning streak and ended its own 10-game skid with a victory behind rookie Christoper Morel eight-inning sacrifice fly.
A pair of double-digit streaks had not ended in the same game since Philadelphia
beat Houston on Sept. 15, 1999, ending the Phillies’ skid at 11 and the Brewers’ winning streak at 12.
ORIOLES 1, RAYS 0 » Dean Kremer pitched six scoreless innings and rookie Adley Rutschman singled home the game’s only run in the seventh as Baltimore handed Tampa Bay its fourth straight loss.
Kremer allowed five hits and matched the six scoreless frames thrown by Tampa Bay’s Shane Baz. Then Ryan Mountcastle hit a one-out double off Calvin Faucher (0-1), and Rutschman followed with a single to center.
Baz allowed just two hits and struck out seven on his 23rd birthday, but Kremer struck out five with one walk and kept Tampa Bay off the scoreboard. After a threegame sweep at the hands of the AL Eastleading Yankees, the Rays have now matched their longest skid of the season. Tampa Bay is 1-6 so far on its nine-game road trip.
Mets’ Megill out a month
NEW YORK » Mets pitcher Tylor Megill won’t throw for four weeks because of a strained right shoulder while infielder Eduardo Escobar rejoined the team Friday after having hospital tests for an unspecified “non-workplace event.”
Megill was put on the injured list for the second time this season, a day after he started against Milwaukee. The NL East leaders already had aces Jacob deGrom and Max Scherzer out with injuries.