MLB notebook: Angels star Trout out 6 to 8 weeks due to calf strain
Mike Trout was hurt in Monday night s win over Cleveland.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. Mike Trout instantly figured something was wrong. And the Angels’ star was right – he’s now out for the longest stretch of his major league career because of a strained right calf.
The three-time AL MVP is expected to miss 6 to 8 weeks, which would sideline the Los Angeles outfielder through the All-Star break.
“It is not just a little bump in the road. I mean, I’m really crushed about it,” Trout said Tuesday.
Updated: 4:48 PM EDT May 18, 2021 Rennie Stennett, the sure-handed second baseman who was part of the first all-Black starting lineup in major league history and later helped the Pittsburgh Pirates win the 1979 World Series, has died. He was 72.The team, citing information provided by the Stennett family, said Stennett passed away early Tuesday morning following a bout with cancer.Stennett hit .274 with 41 home runs and 432 RBIs in 11 big league seasons, nine of them with Pittsburgh. Though he was never named to an All-Star team, he received Most Valuable Player votes in both 1974 and in 1977, when he hit a career-best .336 before missing the final six weeks of the season due to an injury.The Panamanian-born Stennett reached the majors with the Pirates in 1971. On Sept. 1, 1971, he started at second base as part of the first all-Black lineup in MLB history in a 10-7 victory over Philadelphia, a group that included Hall of Famers Roberto Clemente and Willie Stargell.On Sept