ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Los Angeles Angels star Mike Trout is headed back to the 10-day injured list because of a bone bruise in his surgically repaired left knee.
Angels manager Ron Washington made the announcement Thursday night following a 10-4 loss to the Detroit Tigers. The team said there is no structural damage to Trout's knee.
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Los Angeles Angels' Mike Trout, left, rounds the bases after hitting a home run against the Minnesota Twins during the seventh inning of a baseball game, Friday, April 25, 2025, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Craig Lassig)
Los Angeles Angels right fielder Mike Trout catches a fly ball hit by Minnesota Twins' Ryan Jeffers in the fourth inning of a baseball game Sunday, April 27, 2025, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Bruce Kluckhohn)
Los Angeles Angels' Mike Trout hits a single against the Seattle Mariners during the first inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, April 30, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/John Froschauer)
Los Angeles Angels' Mike Trout runs to first on a ground out against the Seattle Mariners during the third inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, April 30, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/John Froschauer)
Los Angeles Angels' Mike Trout grounds out against the Seattle Mariners during the third inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, April 30, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/John Froschauer)
Los Angeles Angels' Mike Trout talks with batting coach Johnny Washington in the dugout before a baseball game against the Seattle Mariners, Wednesday, April 30, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/John Froschauer)
“He has a bone bruise so we’re going to put him on the IL,” Washington told MLB.com. “It’s not significant. But he needs rest.”
The oft-injured Trout missed his first game of the season Thursday night after being removed from Wednesday’s loss in Seattle with left knee soreness. The three-time AL MVP got hurt on a sprint to first base when his left foot hit the bag as he tried to beat out a third-inning groundout.
Trout is hitting .179 this year with nine home runs and 18 RBIs.
He had two operations to repair separate meniscus tears in the knee last season, limiting him to 29 games. The 11-time All-Star outfielder did not play in the majors after April 29.
Due to various injuries, the 33-year-old Trout has played in more than 82 games only once in the past four seasons.
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Los Angeles Angels' Mike Trout, left, rounds the bases after hitting a home run against the Minnesota Twins during the seventh inning of a baseball game, Friday, April 25, 2025, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Craig Lassig)
Los Angeles Angels right fielder Mike Trout catches a fly ball hit by Minnesota Twins' Ryan Jeffers in the fourth inning of a baseball game Sunday, April 27, 2025, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Bruce Kluckhohn)
Los Angeles Angels' Mike Trout hits a single against the Seattle Mariners during the first inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, April 30, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/John Froschauer)
Los Angeles Angels' Mike Trout runs to first on a ground out against the Seattle Mariners during the third inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, April 30, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/John Froschauer)
Los Angeles Angels' Mike Trout grounds out against the Seattle Mariners during the third inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, April 30, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/John Froschauer)
Los Angeles Angels' Mike Trout talks with batting coach Johnny Washington in the dugout before a baseball game against the Seattle Mariners, Wednesday, April 30, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/John Froschauer)
BERLIN (AP) — European leaders are expected to cement support for Ukraine Monday as it faces Washington’s pressure to swiftly accept a U.S.-brokered peace deal.
After Sunday’s talks in Berlin between U.S. envoys and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukrainian and European officials are set to continue a series of meetings in an effort to secure the continent’s peace and security in the face of an increasingly assertive Russia.
Zelenskyy sat down Sunday with U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner in the German federal chancellery in the hopes of bringing the nearly four-year war to a close.
Washington has tried for months to navigate the demands of each side as Trump presses for a swift end to Russia’s war and grows increasingly exasperated by delays. The search for possible compromises has run into major obstacles, including control of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, which is mostly occupied by Russian forces.
The U.S. government late Sunday said in a social media post on Witkoff’s account after the five-hour meeting that “a lot of progress was made.”
Earlier in the day, Zelenskyy voiced readiness to drop his country’s bid to join NATO if the U.S. and other Western nations give Kyiv security guarantees similar to those offered to NATO members. But Ukraine continued to reject the U.S. push for ceding territory to Russia.
Putin wants Ukraine to withdraw its forces from the part of the Donetsk region still under its control among the key conditions for peace.
The Russian president also has cast Ukraine’s bid to join NATO as a major threat to Moscow’s security and a reason for launching the full-scale invasion in February 2022. The Kremlin has demanded that Ukraine renounce the bid for alliance membership as part of any prospective peace settlement.
Zelenskyy emphasized that any Western security assurances would need to be legally binding and supported by the U.S. Congress.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who has spearheaded European efforts to support Ukraine alongside French President Emmanuel Macron and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, said Saturday that “the decades of the ‘Pax Americana’ are largely over for us in Europe and for us in Germany as well.”
“Pax Americana” refers to the U.S.’s postwar dominance as a superpower that has brought relative peace to the globe.
Merz warned that Putin’s aim is “a fundamental change to the borders in Europe, the restoration of the old Soviet Union within its borders.”
“If Ukraine falls, he won’t stop,” Merz warned during a party conference in Munich.
Macron, meanwhile, vowed Sunday on social platform X that “France is, and will remain, at Ukraine’s side to build a robust and lasting peace — one that can guarantee Ukraine’s security and sovereignty, and that of Europe, over the long term.”
Putin has denied plans to attack any European allies.
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Ciobanu reported from Warsaw, Poland.
Steve Witkoff, special envoy of the United States, leaves through a hotel garage for talks between representatives of the U.S. and Ukraine in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz,stands in his office in the chancellory in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Maryam Majd)
Steve Witkoff, special envoy of the United States, arrives for talks between representatives of the U.S. and Ukraine, at the Hotel Adlon, in Berlin, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)
Jared Kushner, entrepreneur and former chief adviser to President Donald Trump, arrives for talks between representatives of the U.S. and Ukraine at the Hotel Adlon, in Berlin, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, right, watches Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arriving at the chancellory in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Maryam Majd)
