Angels’ Trout has a broken wrist; Ohtani leaves start
All-Star outfielder Mike Trout of the Angels said he anticipates returning this season despite a broken left wrist suffered when he fouled off a pitch Monday night.
“Of course,” Trout said Tuesday, a few hours after the Angels announced he was placed on the 10-day injured list with broken hamate.
“I’ve had other guys reach out who’ve had this surgery before, or had this injury before. I don’t know if it’s going to need surgery or not. We’ll know in the next couple of days, I guess. Some guys came back in four weeks, some guys take a little longer just to see how their body heals.”
The slugger fouled off a 0-1 pitch from Nick Martinez leading off the eighth inning and immediately shook his left arm. Angels manager Phil Nevin and a trainer came out to check on the slugger and he left the game.
Things got worse for the Angels. It appears Major League Baseball lost one of its biggest attractions at the All-Star Game: Shohei Ohtani on the mound.
Ohtani said he doesn't expect to pitch in next week’s showcase after leaving the Angels’ 8-5 loss at San Diego with a blister on the middle finger of his right hand.
“It's going to be pretty tough. As of now I'm planning on not pitching,” Ohtani said through an interpreter.
The two-way superstar could still play a significant role if he's healthy enough to remain the starting designated hitter for the American League next Tuesday in Seattle.
Ohtani exited on the mound in the sixth inning. When his spot in the lineup at DH came up in the ninth, he was replaced by a pinch-hitter.
Judge hits off tee, can’t run yet
One month into his recovery from a torn ligament in his right toe, Aaron Judge has started hitting off a tee but said he is still unable to run.
“I got to be able to run,” Judge said. “If I can run then I can play. Me running at 10 percent ain’t going to help anybody out there.”
Judge said being able to put weight on his back foot is the biggest factor in how fast he can return from an injury that is unusual for a baseball player.
“Besides running it’s me being able to put 270 pounds on one leg when I’m hitting,” Judge said. “Once we build up that strength and get the pain and all that all out of there, we’re going to be in a good spot.”
Rays slugger Lowe back from IL
Rays slugger Brandon Lowe was reinstated from the 10-day injured list before a 3-1 loss to the Phillies after he missed 26 games with a herniated disk.
Lowe was hitting .205 with nine homers and 29 RBIs in 50 games before being sidelined by his latest back injury. He struck out 63 times in 176 at-bats.
The second baseman was limited to 65 games last season by injuries, including a stress reaction in his lower back.
He hit 39 homers and drove in 99 runs in 2021 but went deep just eight times and had 25 RBIs last year.
Shane McClanahan, on the IL because of midback tightness, threw for 10 minutes in the outfield with some intensity. The lefty, eligible to return on July 16, left his previous two starts on June 22 and 30 early.
Torres leads Yankees over Orioles
Gleyber Torres hit a two-run homer and scored the go-ahead run from first base on Giancarlo Stanton’s fifth-inning single, leading the Yankees over the Orioles, 8-4.
Aaron Hicks homered in his second game back in the Bronx after Yankees released him on May 26 and Adam Frazier followed with a tying, tworun homer in a three-run fifth.
With the score 3-3 in the fifth, Torres walked and was running on a full-count, two-out pitch to Stanton, who singled up the middle. Center fielder Cedric Mullins tossed the ball to second as Torres ran through third base coach Luis Rojas’s stop sign and slid headfirst across the plate.
De La Cruz stays hot for Reds
Brett Kennedy won his first major league appearance in five years, Elly De La Cruz went 4 for 5 with hits from both sides of the plate and the Reds beat the Nationals, 8-4. Kennedy struck out three and allowed four runs and five hits in five-plus innings, only getting into trouble late in his 86-pitch outing . . . Starling Marte hit a three-run homer and Max Scherzer (8-2) struck out nine to remain undefeated in 10 straight starts as the Mets beat the Diamondbacks, 8-5, at Phoenix . . . David Fry had a game-ending single and the Guardians stopped the Braves’ nine-game winning streak with a 6-5 victory in 10 innings at Atlanta. Fry drove an 0-and-1 pitch over the head of left fielder Eddie Rosario to score José Ramírez from third ... Jesús Sánchez homered, singled twice, and had four RBIs and the Marlins beat the Cardinals, 15-2, in another short outing by St. Louis starter Adam Wainwright. Miami’s Luis Arraez went 1 for 3 and walked twice, dropping his major league-leading batting average to .387 . . . Ryan Noda had an RBI single in the 10th as the MLB-worst Athletics edged the host Tigers, 1-0, after being no-hit into the seventh inning.