O'Hoppe leaves early, Angels suffer loss at the hands of Dodger home run derby

Pages' home run was preceeded by a lengthy injury delay for Angels catcher Logan O'Hoppe, who was in obvious pain after trying to dig at a pitch in the dirt from Kochanowicz. It was O'Hoppe's first game back since being activated off the Injured List due to a wrist fracture and it was clear the area was still tender.

The delay went on for several minutes and soon after, Kochanowicz delivered the fastball that Pages took over the fence. He didn't put all of the blame on the delay throwing him off his rhythm, but he didn't deny it as a factor either.

"That just sped up on me a little bit," Kochanowicz said. "I don't know really what happened, how long that really took in between. It seemed like an hour. But, just didn't execute the pitch."

Kochanowicz went through the first eight batters of the game with ease, even striking out Shohei Ohtani to start the game. But, that changed after Hyesong Kim singled his way on-base in the top of the third inning and after that Kochanowicz began to labor, eventually culminating in the three long balls.

"I just wasn't putting the ball where I needed to, in the bottom of the zone. That's a great lineup. They see the ball well. They tried to push me up in the zone and they did tonight," Kochanowicz said.

O'Hoppe's In and Out

The incident that caused O'Hoppe's injury seemed innocuous at first, but considering he was recovering from a fractured wrist, it was anything but.

He stayed in the game after the delay for another inning, but was eventually replaced by Sebastian Rivero in the top of the sixth, removed due to "left wrist irritation," per Angels PR.

"It's just uncomfortable," O'Hoppe said of his wrist. "It's uncomfortable walking around. It's uncomfortable doing anything. But, we'll treat it and keep going."

Suzuki that O'Hoppe would be checked out after the game and that he was simply taken out of the game as a precaution, but he also said that the injury wasn't severe enough to warrant X-rays.