Angels’ Mike Trout gets the day off after returning to DH twice

CLEVELAND — The Angels continue to bring Mike Trout along slowly.

After Trout started at DH on Friday and Saturday — batting fifth and sixth, respectively — he was out of the lineup entirely on Sunday.

Manager Ron Washington said that was the plan of the medical staff all along, and not a reflection of any soreness in Trout’s left knee. Trout was out for a month with a bone bruise in his left knee.

“He was all over the bags yesterday,” Washington said a day after Trout had three hits.