Angels’ Trout hit
Leaves game with hand injury
Angels 8 Rangers 3
LAA: 6-4 TEX: 2-7
ARLINGTON, Texas – Mike Trout left the Los Angeles Angels’ 8-3 win over the Texas Rangers on Sunday after being hit in his left hand by a pitch, but the team said X-rays were negative and the three-time AL MVP is day to day.
Trout was struck by a 1-1 slider from Rangers righthander Spencer Patton leading off the fifth inning. He was seemingly handcuffed by the 81 mph pitch, lowering his hands to protect his midsection.
Trout jumped around and shook the hand in pain. He initially walked toward the visiting dugout, then marched about halfway down the first-base line, where he was met by trainer Mike Frostad and manager Joe Maddon. Frostad checked to see if Trout could squeeze the hand, then walked him off the field and back to the clubhouse.
Trout is hitting .267 this season with two home runs and two RBIs. He earlier doubled on a flair to short right field during the Angels’ three-run third inning in which they took a 4-1 lead.
Mike Mayers (1-0) retired two of three batters to end the fifth for starter Jose Suarez. The Angels have won three straight for the first time since August.
Adolis Garcia hit a tworun
home run for the Rangers, who have lost three straight and are 2-7 to open the season for the first time since 2006. Texas starter Martin Perez (0-2) allowed four runs, three earned, in four innings.
Seven Angels had one RBI. Los Angeles took advantage of seven walks – five of those runners scored – and three Texas errors plus a passed ball that scored a run. Matt Duffy had three hits for LA.
NOTES
Angels 3B Anthony Rendon was given a day off for the second straight Sunday . ... Texas SS Corey Seager was given the day to deal with what manager Chris Woodward called normal wear and tear . ... The Rangers have had a starter go five innings only once this season, with one of their nine games having a one-inning opener . ... Globe Life Field’s roof was open for the fifth time in six games this season. In the two previous seasons of
the ballpark, the roof was open six times in 30 games in 2020 and 11 times in last year’s full 81 home schedule.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Angels: C Kurt Suzuki stayed in the game after being hit in the back of the head by Andy Ibanez’s backswing in the eighth inning.
Rangers: INF-OF Brad Miller (back tightness) missed his second straight game after being a late scratch Saturday.
UP NEXT
Angels: RHP Michael Lorenzen (1-0, 1.50 ERA) will open a three-game series at Houston against Astros RHP Luis Garcia (0-0, 0.00).
Rangers: RHP Jon Gray (0-0, 6.75) is scheduled to come off the injured list and start Tuesday at Seattle against Mariners LHP Robbie Ray (1-1, 4.73) to begin a six-game AL West road trip. Gray left his Texas debut on opening day at Toronto after four innings with a blister.