Mike Trout suffered a right wrist injury on an awkward slide into third base Wednesday night and was not in the starting lineup for only the second time this season on Thursday.
As difficult as it is for the Angels to absorb the loss of baseball’s best all-around player even for one day, the news could have been worse: An X-ray and MRI test revealed only inflammation. There were no broken bones or torn ligaments.
Trout, who missed seven weeks of the 2017 season after tearing a ligament in his left thumb on a head-first slide into second base, was listed as day to day.