Surreal weekend for Guardians players in return to Angels – Los Angeles Times

Lucas Giolito remembered the first time he pitched at Angel Stadium. It was in a showcase when he was in high school. Years later, he took that mound for the Chicago White Sox in 2018. “I remember my first-ever start in Angel Stadium when I was a White Sox, that popped in my head,” Giolito said this week. “Oh! Here I am pitching off the first big league mound I ever threw off of and here I am as a big leaguer doing it. “It was even more so when I was actually an Angel.” Giolito was speaking from the visitors clubhouse, now a pitcher for the Cleveland Guardians, in town for his new team’s four-game series in Anaheim. It had been about a week since his brief time with the Angels came to an end. The Angels traded for Giolito, reliever Reynaldo López, outfielder Randal Grichuk, infielder C.J. Cron and reliever Dominic Leonein the days and minutes before the Aug. 1 trade deadline. But on Aug. 31, all of those players except Cron were put on waivers, along with outfielder Hunter Renfroe and reliever Matt Moore. “It was weird,” Giolito recalled. “We all kind of heard the news, like
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