News about Hunter Renfroe

The Los Angeles Angels appear to be waiving the white flag on their season, one month after opting to keep Shohei Ohtani at the trade deadline. As reported by ESPN, the club called starter Lucas Giolito, relievers Matt Moore and Reynaldo López, and outfielders Hunter Renfroe and Randal Grichuk on waivers, allowing more competitive teams to pick up their heft contracts en route to the playoffs. The last Wild Card spot in the American League was a game out of the day 11.5 games. Ohtani sustained a UCL tear in his right elbow early this week, putting his season on the track and putting his future as an ace pitcher into question. Ohtani will be a free agent after the season, but he remains baseball's best slugger with 44 home runs on the season.

Liam Hendricks returned to the majors after winning the White Sox's bizarre victory over the Detroit Tigers on Saturday. Yoán Moncada scampered home on a 10th-inning wild pitch that knocked out umpire Cory Blaser, bringing the Chicago White Sox to a 2-1 victory. Hendriks pitched a 1-2-3 seventh inning in his second game of the season after recovering from stage 4 non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Aaron Judge robbed Shohei Ohtani of a home run right before hitting a two-run shot, and the New York Yankees beat the Los Angeles Angels 3-2 on Wednesday night, with Gleyber Torres' sacrifice fly in the 10th inning. With a diving catch in the eighth inning, the judge revived the game, and the Yankees added to the nervy to this star-studded series after losing the opener. Gio Urshela tied it 2-all for the Angels in the eighth with a two-out RBI single against his former team, one pitch after Wandy Peralta balked Hunter Renfroe to second base.

Ohtani, the 2021 AL MVP, took down ten strikeouts in six innings without giving up any runs, though he did allow three walks. At bat, the 28-year-old Japanese had two hits. Ohtani, who single-handedly defeated Team USA in the WBC finals last week, is calling his own pitches this season thanks to a PitchCom unit under his jacket.