HOUSTON — Taylor Ward was back in the Angels clubhouse on Monday, with a long cut above his right eye and a feeling of relief that nothing worse happened.

Ward said the cut required about 20 stitches, including repairing a blood vessel and a muscle, but there was no damage to his eye and he did not suffer a concussion. He said he’s hoping to play again in the coming days.

“Way better,” Ward said when asked how he was feeling. “I slept well last night and woke up with no headache or anything like that. Very lucky.”

Ward crashed face-first into the metal out-of-town scoreboard on the left field fence at Houston’s Daikin Park on Sunday. He was bleeding so much that he was taken off the field on a cart and transported in an ambulance to the hospital for further tests.

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