{"id":115657,"date":"2025-09-03T02:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T02:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/115657\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T02:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T02:18:10","slug":"mike-trout-scratched-from-angels-lineup-with-skin-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/115657\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Trout scratched from Angels&#8217; lineup with skin infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/30836\/mike-trout\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Trout<\/a> was scratched from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/laa\/los-angeles-angels\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Angels<\/a>&#8216; starting lineup Tuesday night against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/kc\/kansas-city-royals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Royals<\/a> because of a skin infection.<\/p>\n<p>The three-time AL MVP is considered day-to-day, and the Angels said they hoped to have more information after the game.<\/p>\n<p>Trout was originally penciled in as the designated hitter but was removed from the lineup less than an hour before first pitch. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/40854\/jo-adell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jo Adell<\/a> was switched from right field to DH, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32900\/chris-taylor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Taylor<\/a> was inserted in right field.<\/p>\n<p>Trout is batting .231 with 20 home runs and 54 RBI. He&#8217;s two homers shy of 400 for his career, and his 1,008 RBI rank third in franchise history behind Tim Salmon (1,016) and Garrett Anderson (1,292).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Mo. &#8212; Mike Trout was scratched from the Los Angeles Angels&#8216; starting lineup Tuesday night against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-115657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}