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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Seattle Mariners slugger Julio Rodr\u00edguez was unable to dodge a grounder in the third inning of Saturday night\u2019s 8-6 loss<\/a> to the Los Angeles Angels.<\/p>\n

Rodr\u00edguez was attempting to steal third base when Randy Arozarena\u2019s 98-mph grounder that appeared headed through the shortstop hole hit Rodr\u00edguez on top of his right ankle, knocking him out of the game.<\/p>\n

The two-time American League All-Star got better news later in the evening when X-rays on his ankle were negative, and Rodr\u00edguez was listed as day-to-day with a contusion.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s kind of a day-to-day thing, we\u2019ll see how it goes,\u201d Seattle manager Dan Wilson said after his team\u2019s fifth consecutive loss. \u201cBut it could have been a lot worse.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rodr\u00edguez, who is batting .254 with 10 homers and 32 RBIs in 61 games, had singled and scored on Cal Raleigh\u2019s three-run homer in the first inning and singled and stole second base to open the third.<\/p>\n

With one out and Arozarena batting against Angels starter Jack Kochanowicz, Rodr\u00edguez took off for third. He heard the crack of Arozarena\u2019s bat, but the ball struck him just as he was about to turn his head to look for it.<\/p>\n

Arozarena was credited with a single. Rodr\u00edguez was ruled out and remained on the ground near the third-base coaching box for a minute or two before being escorted back to the dugout.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt first, it was very painful \u2014 like I couldn\u2019t really feel my foot a whole lot or move it a whole lot,\u201d he said. \u201cBut after they started treating it, the swelling went down, and everything started reacting better right away. So that made me feel really good. \u2026<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a high chance that I should be in the lineup (Sunday).\u201d<\/p>\n

Rodr\u00edguez\u2019s absence was felt immediately. Leody Taveras took over in center field and misjudged Zach Neto\u2019s flare to lead off the bottom of the third. The ball dropped in front of him and then bounced away for a single and an error.<\/p>\n

Neto scored on first baseman Rowdy Tellez\u2019s fielding error, and Chris Taylor followed with a catchable drive to the gap in right-center.<\/p>\n

But Taveras mistimed his leap on the warning track, and the ball clanged off the palm of his glove hand for an RBI double that tied the score at 4 and erased the Angels\u2019 four-run second-inning deficit.<\/p>\n

Angels center fielder Jo Adell broke the tie with his second homer of the game in the fourth, and the Angels pulled away with runs in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a tough situation (for Taveras) coming off the bench there, and the ball finds him right away,\u201d Wilson said. \u201cHe\u2019s been so good for us, and he\u2019s run a lot of balls down out there, so just a tougher night for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Seattle Mariners slugger Julio Rodr\u00edguez was unable to dodge a grounder in the third…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[291,5,1932,3297,2178,2059,3294,758,2179,3992,1165,446,3223,2170,774,56,3224,3222,4,256,1456,874,65,185,10050,414,2052],"class_list":{"0":"post-88779","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-ca-state-wire","11":"tag-cal-raleigh","12":"tag-california","13":"tag-chris-taylor","14":"tag-dan-wilson","15":"tag-jack-kochanowicz","16":"tag-jo-adell","17":"tag-julio-rodriguez","18":"tag-la","19":"tag-la-angels","20":"tag-laangels","21":"tag-leody-taveras","22":"tag-los-angeles","23":"tag-los-angeles-angels","24":"tag-losangeles","25":"tag-losangelesangels","26":"tag-mlb","27":"tag-mlb-baseball","28":"tag-randy-arozarena","29":"tag-rowdy-tellez","30":"tag-seattle-mariners","31":"tag-sports","32":"tag-wa-state-wire","33":"tag-washington","34":"tag-zach-neto"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114648577699369718","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88779","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=88779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}