As the Angels remain in the hunt in the American League playoff race, their postseason prospects might have taken a major hit Monday night against the Padres.
During the eighth inning with Los Angeles trailing, 9–3, center fielder Mike Trout left the game with an apparent wrist injury after fouling a pitch off from San Diego’s Nick Martinez. Trout was briefly examined by the Angels’s training staff before heading for the dugout and down the tunnel.
Trout, who’s missed significant time due to various injuries over the past two seasons, has been healthy for all of 2023, playing in 81 of the team’s first 87 games.
Mike Trout exits the game after an apparent injury during his 8th inning at bat. pic.twitter.com/s0xSfpVQ3j
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The Angels entered Monday’s game having lost four of their past five games and eight of their past 12, yet still sat just two games out of the third AL wild-card spot. The team has not made the playoffs since 2014 and hasn’t won a postseason game since 2009, two years before Trout’s big-league debut.
