The Los Angeles Angels placed superstar outfielder Mike Trout on the 10-day injured list due to a bone bruise in his surgically repaired left knee on Thursday. 

Trout, 33, hurt the knee during the Angels' 9-3 loss to the Seattle Mariners on Wednesday when he tried to leg out an infield single to the second baseman. He was just barely out and took his position in right field the following half-inning, but he was removed from the game in the fourth inning prior to his next at-bat. 

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"He has a bone bruise so we’re going to put him on the IL," Angels manager Ron Washington told MLB.com. "It’s not significant. But he needs rest."

After he sustained the injury, Trout said he hoped to return to the lineup on Thursday and that the pain was just some scar tissue breaking that caused the soreness.

"When it happened, I knew it was, like, just a weird one," Trout said after the game. "But, now, after getting treatment and stuff, I should be a little better soon."

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Trout transitioned from center field to right field before the season to help keep the three-time AL MVP healthy. He has played in all 29 of the Angels’ games to begin the year with 22 of those starts in right field. 

Last season, Trout played in 29 games before he tore his meniscus and missed the remainder of the season. 

Trout has played in more than 82 games only once in the past four seasons.

Trout has had an odd season this year. He has hit nine home runs, tied for second in MLB, but he has a batting average of just .179. 

Trout’s .179 batting average is far below his career batting average of .297. 

The Angels are last in AL West at 12-18, and will look to climb up the standings without their 11-time All-Star for the foreseeable future. 

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The field for the 151st edition of the Kentucky Derby was reduced to 19 by Friday after two horses were scratched with potential complications, including one colt trained by legendary trainer Bob Baffert. 

Rodriguez, the Wood Memorial winner, was scratched Thursday due to a bruised foot and will instead be sidelined until the second leg of the Triple Crown, the Preakness Stakes on May 17. 

"Out of an abundance of caution, we have made a very tough decision to scratch our Derby horse, Rodriguez," Tom Ryan of Starlight Racing, one of the colt's multiple owners, confirmed in a post on X.  

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"He has a small but slightly sensitive foot bruise that will need a few more days. Therefore, we are resetting our plans and will target him for the Preakness." 

Rodriguez was one of two horses trained by Baffert competing in the Kentucky Derby on Saturday. The Hall of Fame trainer is returning to Churchill Downs for the first time since Medina Spirit’s Kentucky Derby victory in 2021, a title that was later stripped because of a positive drug test resulting in a three-year suspension for Baffert. 

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"It was an honest mistake," Baffert said in a sitdown interview with "Fox & Friends" on Friday morning. "The testing levels are so low now … It was in an ointment, and we didn’t realize until about 48 hours that it was being used humanly – he had a horrible skin rash." 

"We were fighting for the horse," Baffert said of the legal battle that ensued after Medina Spirit’s title was stripped. He said fallout was never over a denial of a positive drug test. "He earned that win." 

Baffert will still have a horse in the race as he pursues a record-breaking seventh win at the Kentucky Derby – a record he briefly held in 2021. Citizen Bull, a two-year-old colt, drew the dreaded No. 1 post for Saturday’s race. 

Baeza entered the 20-horse field in place of Rodriguez, but the field was reduced to 19 after Grande was also scratched on Friday with a cracked heel. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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