If these are the last days of six thrilling but empty years of Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani as Angels teammates, the Fourth of July will stand as the most disheartening. Just hours after Trout landed on the injured list with a fracture in his hand that will keep him sidelined for one to two months, Ohtani left his losing start against San Diego with a blister on the middle finger of his throwing hand.
Joey Chestnut’s digestive tract had a better day.
Oh, and Los Angeles third baseman Anthony Rendon also left the game after fouling a ball off his shin, which led to him needing crutches in the clubhouse. For those of you keeping score at home, that’s $105.7 million in 2023 salaries knocked out in one game. So it goes with the bedeviled Angels.
