MAGIC NUMBER
15
To clinch NL West title * Clinched playoff berth
⏩ MLB: Angels’ Mike Trout likely done for year with calf injury.
Mike Trout is likely done for the year. Same for Jo Adell, another outfielder for the Angels.
Manager Joe Maddon said Wednesday he would be very surprised if Trout played again this season. The threetime AL MVP injured his right calf running the bases May 17 and had a setback last month, but he has left open the possibility of returning this year.
Adell was placed on the 10-day injured list after he got hurt when he crashed into the wall in left while trying to catch Garrett Stubbs’ RBI double in the ninth inning of the Angels’ 4-2 win at Houston on Saturday night.
“The left side of his body, he’s feeling something in there where he can’t really rotate or swing the bat, and that’s pretty much it,” Maddon said.
Trout had been trying to come back this year, but he experienced soreness in his calf after running the bases Aug. 28. A chuckling Maddon called his comments on Trout an “unofficial statement,” not wanting to jump in front of the outfielder in ruling him out, but he indicated there just isn’t enough time left for him to play again.
“I watch him do his work and it’s been the same. The guy is like so wanting to be out there,” Maddon said.
Remembering Clemente: MLB honored Roberto Clemente on Wednesday, and a limited number of players and coaches were allowed to wear No. 21 as a tribute.
Boston manager Alex Cora proudly wore it and fondly remembered the stories his father would tell him and his brother, Joey, of the Hall of Fame member when they were kids. Cora said his father, Jose Manuel Cora, played winter ball in Puerto Rico with the former Pirates outfielder, who died in a plane crash Dec. 31, 1972, while delivering aid to earthquake victims in Nicaragua at 38. Those stories have stuck with Cora.
“We don’t do enough back home to actually teach our kids who this man was,” Cora said. “But I think we’re doing a better job now. And I think we’re sending a message and the kids are learning who Roberto Clemente was.”