The Los Angeles Angels activated Grayson Rodriguez from the injured list in advance of the right-hander’s debut with the club in a home start against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday.

In a corresponding move, the Angels optioned right-hander Alek Manoah to Triple-A Salt Lake.

Rodriguez, 26, was acquired in a trade with the Baltimore Orioles this past offseason for outfielder Taylor Ward. The former first-round draft pick (11th overall) by the Orioles in 2018 did not pitch last season after elbow surgery.

In parts of two major league seasons, Rodriguez is 20-8 with a 4.11 ERA in 43 starts between 2023 and 2024. He pitched 12 2/3 innings for the Angels in spring training before going on the IL with shoulder inflammation.

During two minor league rehab outings, he had a 2.79 ERA over 9 2/3 innings. He fanned 18 batters and only walked a pair.

Manoah, 28, was rocked for nine runs (eight earned) over 1 1/3 innings on Saturday against the Dodgers. It was his third outing with the Angels after missing more than a month at the start of the season with a right middle finger contusion.

Manoah, who spent his first four major league seasons with the Toronto Blue Jays, is 29-20 with a 3.45 ERA in 78 career appearances (75 starts).

–Field Level Media

World No. 1 and Italian native son Jannik Sinner captured his sixth consecutive ATP Masters 1000 title, subduing Norway’s Casper Ruud, 6-4, 6-4 on Sunday to raise the trophy at the Italian Open in Rome.

Sinner joined Serbia’s Novak Djokovic as the only two players to win all nine ATP Masters 1000 titles, known as the Career Golden Masters. He extended his winning streak to 34 in these elite tournaments — breaking Djokovic’s record of 31 — and became the first Italian to win in Rome since Adriano Panatta pulled it off in 1976.

“I think this year was the 50th year since an Italian won and I am really, really happy,” Sinner said in his on-court interview. “There was a lot of tension on both sides, it was not perfect tennis from both of us, but I am really happy.

“(It has been) an incredible past two and a half months. I try to put myself in the best possible position every time and do the best I can. Not every day is simple, but I am really, really happy.”

Sinner started sluggishly, missing his first seven first serves of the match as 23rd-seeded Ruud broke him in the second game. But he quickly recovered, breaking right back and succeeding on 13 of his next 18 first serves, winning 12 of those 13 points.

Tied at 4-all, he earned his second break of the set and won his serve at love to take the first set.

Sinner kept his foot on the gas to start the second set, ripping a backhand up the line to break Ruud. The Norwegian did get one chance at 3-4, but Sinner fended off one break point and crossed the finish line in one hour, 55 minutes.

The Italian recorded 26 winners and 15 unforced errors, while Ruud hit 22 winners and made 23 miscues.

Ruud will move up to No. 17 in the ATP Rankings on Monday.

Hamburg Open

Seeded Americans Tommy Paul and Frances Tiafoe both advanced to the round of 16 on Sunday with straight set triumphs in Hamburg, Germany.

Paul, seeded No. 6, defeated fellow American Ethan Quinn, 6-1, 6-3, while No. 8 Tiafoe knocked off Germany’s Diego Dedura, 6-4, 6-4.

Paul did not face a break point and converted 5-of-8 in the match. Quinn struggled, recording only five winners and 25 unforced errors. Tiafoe had a tougher time, but saved all eight break points, including five in the sixth game of the second set.

Geneva Open

In the lone main draw match on Sunday, Argentine Mariano Navone stunned his countryman Marco Trungelitti, 5-7, 7-5, 6-1 in a two-hour, 55-minute come-from-behind victory to advance to the round of 16 in Geneva, Switzerland.

Trungelli served for the match twice, leading 5-1 and 5-3 in the deciding set. But Navone broke without facing a match point in either game and reeled off six consecutive games to prevail.

Navone won 66 of 140 (47.1%) return points in the match.

–Field Level Media

The Los Angeles Dodgers placed left-hander Jack Dreyer on the 15-day injured list Sunday with left shoulder discomfort, while right-handers Paul Gervase and Chayce McDermott were recalled from Triple-A Oklahoma City.

In another pitching move, the Dodgers optioned left-hander Charlie Barnes to Triple-A.

Dreyer, 27, is tied for the Dodgers’ lead in appearances with left-hander Tanner Scott at 20. The second-year pitcher is 2-1 with a 2.08 ERA and has 24 strikeouts in 21 2/3 innings.

In his two seasons, Dreyer is 5-3 with a 2.76 ERA in 87 appearances (five starts) and did not allow a run in four appearances in last year’s postseason, including two appearances in the World Series against the Toronto Blue Jays.

Gervase, 25, went three innings in his lone appearance for the Dodgers this season on May 9 and allowed one run.

McDermott, 27, is set to make his Dodgers debut after he was acquired from the Baltimore Orioles on April 16 for minor league right-hander Axel Perez. He had a 12.79 ERA in five appearances with the Orioles from 2024-25.

Barnes, 30, has made two scoreless relief appearances for Los Angeles this season, including a one-inning outing Saturday against the Los Angeles Angels.

–Field Level Media