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SAN DIEGO — Hours after placing All-Star outfielder Mike Trout on the 10-day injured list with a broken left wrist, the Los Angeles Angels saw their run of bad injury luck continue in their game Tuesday night against the San Diego Padres.
Third baseman Anthony Rendon was removed in the fourth inning after fouling a ball off his leg; the team said he has a left shin contusion and that X-rays were negative. Then, two-way star Shohei Ohtani departed with a blister on the middle finger of his pitching hand after giving up consecutive home runs to Xander Bogaerts and Jake Cronenworth with none out in the sixth inning.
The right-hander’s start had been pushed back a day due to a cracked nail, the same finger on which he developed the blister. His velocity was down Tuesday, and he left trailing 5-1. Ohtani made the last out at the plate in the top of the sixth and Jo Adell pinch hit for him in the ninth, delivering an RBI triple.
Ohtani left his previous start as a pitcher but remained in the game as the DH and homered, giving him 10 strikeouts and two home runs in a 4-2 win against the Chicago White Sox.
Both Rendon and Ohtani appeared to have avoided serious injury, a relief for the Angels after learning they will be without Trout for several weeks. The three-time AL MVP said he still anticipates returning this season despite a broken hamate bone 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 injured list.
“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 Monday and immediately shook his left arm. Angels manager Phil Nevin and a trainer…
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