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Ron Washington is simply a shot lifer, but immoderate caller wellness concerns volition unit the Los Angeles Angels manager to instrumentality immoderate clip distant from the game.
Angels wide manager Perry Minasian announced plans for Washington to measurement distant indefinitely.
"We each cognize however important [baseball] is, but definite things are bigger than baseball, and wellness is evidently archetypal and foremost," Minasian said successful a connection Friday.
Ray Montgomery, the team's seat coach, volition grip managerial duties for the Angels' crippled against the Houston Astros Friday night.
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Los Angeles Angels manager Ron Washington successful the dugout during a crippled against the Kansas City Royals astatine Angel Stadium. (Jayne Kamin-Oncea/USA Today Sports)
Washington, 73, experienced shortness of enactment and appeared fatigued toward the extremity of a four-game bid against the New York Yankees. He was cleared by Yankees doctors to alert location with the squad Thursday nighttime and underwent a bid of aesculapian tests Friday.
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The Angels did not specify what symptoms Washington was experiencing but said the manager addressed the squad successful the clubhouse on with Minasian Friday. Washington planned to ticker the crippled from the GM’s Angel Stadium suite. Washington was not made disposable to the media.
Los Angeles Angels manager Ron Washington walks disconnected the mound against the Los Angeles Dodgers successful the 3rd inning astatine Tempe Diablo Stadium March 5, 2025. (Rick Scuteri/Imagn Images)
"Wash has not felt large the past mates of days," Minasian said. "We privation to marque definite he’s 100% earlier he’s backmost successful the dugout and managing. How agelong it’s going to take, I don’t know. I don’t expect it to beryllium excessively long.
"We each cognize however important this is for each of us, but wellness is much important than anything, and, maine personally, I’m not letting him backmost successful the dugout until I cognize he’s 100%. OK? I emotion the feline excessively much."
Manager Ron Washington of the Los Angeles Angels sits successful the dugout earlier an opening time crippled against the Boston Red Sox astatine Angel Stadium of Anaheim April 5, 2024, successful Anaheim, Calif. (Brandon Sloter/Getty Images)
Washington, who managed the Texas Rangers to back-to-back World Series successful 2010 and 2011, was hired by Minasian earlier a 2024 play successful which the Angels mislaid a franchise-record 99 games.
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The Angels entered Friday night’s crippled astatine 36-38, 6½ games down the Astros successful the AL West. The Angels are 15-6 successful one-run games, a large league-best .714 winning percentage, and 5-0 successful other innings.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Chantz Martin is simply a sports writer for Fox News Digital.
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