Trout has strained right calf, could be out for 6 to 8 weeks

Los Angeles Angels star outfielder Mike Trout is expected be sidelined for six to eight weeks because of a strained right calf, a setback that could keep him out through the All-Star break.

The Angels put Trout on the injured list Tuesday, a day after he made an early exit in a 7-4 win over Cleveland. Trout came up limping after running toward third on an inning-ending popup in the first.

Manager Joe Maddon said after the game that Trout was in a lot of pain.

The three-time MVP is sixth in the American League with a .333 batting average, and was 1 for 17 in his past six games. He snapped a five-game hitless streak Sunday at Boston, which was one game shy of the longest of his career.

TUESDAY’S GAMES

Giants 4, Reds 2:

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Anthony DeSclafani gave up one run over seven good innings,

Alex Dickerson hit a three-run homer and San Francisco beat host Cincinnati.

DeSclafani (4-1), who signed with the Giants after five seasons in Cincinnati, was outstanding in his first appearance back at Great American Ball Park, scattering six hits and striking out seven.

Jake McGee pitched the ninth and got the Reds in order for his 11th save. Brandon Crawford also homered for the NL West-leading Giants, who took the first two of the four-game set with the Reds.

Luis Castillo (1-6) struck out 11 through five innings and gave up three runs, all on Dickerson's homer.

With Crawford and Mauricio Dubón on base in the Giants fourth, Castillo threw a 1-1 changeup that Dickerson hit over the fence in right-center.

Jesse Winker led off the game with home run for the Reds, but they couldn't get another runner past second base until Nick Castellanos homered in the eighth off reliever Zack Littell.

ELSEWHERE

Mets: New York outfielder

● Kevin Pillar, who was hit in the face by a pitch in Monday night’s seventh inning aganst the Braves in Atlanta, has suffered multiple nasal fractures, the team announced Tuesday morning.

Pillar will meet with a facial specialist in Atlanta to determine the next steps, the club said.

With the bases loaded in the inning, Atlanta’s Jacob Webb drilled Pillar in the face with a 95-mph fastball. Pillar immediately went facedown to the dirt.

Blood covered his nose — so much of it, in fact, that the grounds crew at Truist Park rushed onto the field to clean it up.

“You think about the player’s career, you think about a lot of things in the moment and you get emotional,” Mets manager

Luis Rojas said of his thoughts when moments like this occur. “The best you can do in the moment is pray and ask God for the understanding and the best on the guys, that they have a prompt recovery and that they can get back in the game if that’s the plan.”

And somehow, perhaps in a testament to Pillar’s toughness, he got up and walked off the field under his own power. It surprised Rojas and probably many others in the ballpark at the time.