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Angels’ Mike Trout battling wild pitches, injuries, early-season slump<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mike Trout was furious. The Los Angeles Angels<\/a> outfielder reached his limit with the Seattle Mariners<\/a>‘ pitching staff.<\/p>\n

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After enduring a 94-mph sinker on Bryan Woo’s second straight up-and-in pitch last Friday,\u00a0Trout absorbed a 94.2-mph fastball off his left hand by\u00a0Mariners reliever Casey Legumina\u00a0last Sunday.<\/p>\n

Woo later apologized when Trout trotted by the mound, but Sunday, the three-time AL MVP didn’t anticipate any atonement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know where they\u2019re trying to get me out, fastballs up and in, so it\u2019s just frustrating,\u201d Trout said, as reported by MLB.com<\/a>. \u201cYou know, if you can\u2019t control it up there, you shouldn\u2019t do it. So it is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trout missed Monday’s outing, but returned for the final two games of the series against the Atlanta Braves<\/a>. His mood didn’t improve much, going 1-for-9 with one run scored during the back-to-back losses at Angel Stadium.<\/p>\n

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Are Trout’s struggles extending beyond his mounting injuries?<\/p>\n

Are the injuries starting to catch up to the 34-year-old potential Hall of Famer.<\/p>\n

Angels’ Mike Trout fishing for slow-start answers<\/p>\n

An 11-time All-Star who has spent extended time on injured-reserve lists over his 15-year career, Trout has only dressed for more than 119 games twice since 2019.<\/p>\n

Immediately after\u00a0Legumina’s hit by pitch, Trout suffered a contusion on his left hand. With his hand swelling, team trainers were forced to use scissors to cut off the batting glove.<\/p>\n

For a change, Trout’s troubles didn’t include another trip to the IL.<\/p>\n

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He returned last Tuesday for his 400th career home run bobblehead promotional night, but Trout went 1-for-5 with two strikeouts during the 7-2 defeat.<\/p>\n

Over his past eight starts, Trout enters Friday’s series opener at the Cincinnati Reds<\/a> hitting .069 with 12 strikeouts.<\/p>\n

Are the series of injuries beginning to catch up to Trout?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Angels’ Mike Trout battling wild pitches, injuries, early-season slump originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[2111,4698,253136,2319,2322,105614,363,481,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-575524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-atlanta-braves","9":"tag-bryan-woo","10":"tag-casey-legumina","11":"tag-cincinnati-reds","12":"tag-los-angeles-angels","13":"tag-mike-trout","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-seattle-mariners","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}