Overview

• Ward crashed face-first into the unpadded out-of-town scoreboard in left field during the eighth inning at Houston’s Daikin Park, immediately bled, and was carted off.
• Team staff and paramedics treated him on the field before an ambulance transported him to a nearby hospital for evaluation.
• Interim manager Ray Montgomery said Ward had a laceration above his right eye that required stitches and that additional evaluation was pending.
• Ward told The Athletic’s Sam Blum later that night that he was doing well and described the outcome as a best-case scenario.
• Angels players, led by Jo Adell, criticized the metal scoreboard as unsafe and urged changes at Daikin Park, a venue already under scrutiny after recent wall collisions.