Los Angeles Angels superstar center fielder Mike Trout left his team’s 8-7 win over the Seattle Mariners on Sunday afternoon after being hit by a pitch on his left hand in the eighth inning.<\/p>\n
Trout, 34, originally headed to first base after being hit by Casey Legumina’s 0-1 fastball, before he was escorted to the dugout by the club’s training staff. He was sent for X-rays and is considered day-to-day, Angels manager Kurt Suzuki said in his postgame news conference.<\/p>\n
“It’s just a contusion,” the first-year manager said. “So, we’ll see how he feels tomorrow.”<\/p>\n
Trout was 1-for-4 in the win, and has two home runs and three RBIs for the new-look Angels, who improved to 5-5 this season, taking two of three from the defending American League West champions.<\/p>\n
Oswald Peraza replaced Trout in the lineup. In the 11th inning, with the score tied 7-7, Peraza successfully sacrificed the eventual winning run to third base with a bunt. One batter later, Nolan Schanuel’s sacrifice fly scored Adam Frazier from third to seal the win.<\/p>\n
“What a team effort,” Suzuki said. “We focus on the little things. It’s not going to be perfect. But if we keep focusing, and we stay the course, more times than not, I will feel good about our chances.”<\/p>\n
Trout potentially dodging a stint on the injured list would be welcome news for Suzuki. Last season, the three-time MVP was placed on the IL on May 2 because of a left knee contusion. He missed 26 games.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles will open a three-game series vs. the Atlanta Braves on Monday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Angels superstar center fielder Mike Trout left his team’s 8-7 win over the Seattle Mariners on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[291,5,1165,446,3223,774,56,56438,3224,3222,84826,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-666156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-angels","8":"tag-angels","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-la-angels","12":"tag-laangels","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-angels","15":"tag-los-angeles-angels-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-227","16":"tag-losangeles","17":"tag-losangelesangels","18":"tag-mike-trout-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-500736","19":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116357073747517937","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}