Angels’ Mike Trout sees progress with injured knee

ANAHEIM — Even though Mike Trout isn’t going to return from the injured list as quickly as he hoped, he was nonetheless optimistic about the progress in his bruised left knee.

“It’s been great,” Trout said on Saturday. “I was worried in the beginning, but the sharpness I was feeling after that day in Seattle is gone.”

Trout felt pain in his knee on April 30 in Seattle. A couple days later, when the Angels placed him on the injured list, he said he thought it was possible that he could be back after the minimum 10 days...