{"id":751611,"date":"2026-07-09T01:35:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T01:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/751611\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T01:35:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T01:35:34","slug":"all-star-mike-trout-rejoins-angels-after-17-game-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/751611\/","title":{"rendered":"All-Star Mike Trout rejoins Angels after 17-game absence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">ARLINGTON, Texas &#8212; The <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/laa\/los-angeles-angels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Los Angeles Angels<\/a> activated center fielder <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/30836\/mike-trout\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mike Trout<\/a> from the injured list Wednesday, just in time for the All-Star Game in his beloved Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Trout sat out 17 games because of a strained right hamstring suffered while running the bases in a game on June 17. Angels manager Kurt Suzuki had Trout batting second as the designated hitter against the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/tex\/texas-rangers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Texas Rangers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;We&#8217;re going to obviously see how he feels,&#8221;Suzuki said before the game about his willingness to send Trout back in the field. &#8220;Maybe in the beginning, I take it out of his hands. Not really sure how I&#8217;m going to handle it yet, but he is ready to go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Trout, who grew up 40 miles from Philadelphia in Millville, New Jersey, was elected by fan voting as a starter for the American League team at the All-Star Game next week at Citizens Bank Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The 12-time All-Star has not been able to participate in the showcase event since 2019, having been sidelined by injury after his selections from 2021 to 2023. Trout, a three-time AL MVP and two-time All-Star Game MVP, has enjoyed a bounce-back season with a team-leading .866 OPS with 17 homers and 36 RBIs in 74 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The Angels designated infielder Donovan Walton for assignment to make room on the roster.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas &#8212; The Los Angeles Angels activated center fielder Mike Trout from the injured list Wednesday, just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[322347,352,2322,363,3,99,2330,97743],"class_list":["post-751611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-322347","tag-espn","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-mlb","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-texas-rangers","tag-trout-mike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751611","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=751611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}