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Montreal -- The Angels took their workforce photo Friday afternoon, an overview of who the team will be and what they could become inside month leading into the postseason.

But Friday's photograph also documented what the club no longer had -- injured beginning Garrett Richards, who returned to the workforce for the first time since tearing the left patellar tendon last week inside Boston.

Richards rode a cart to the platform in center field for the photo and relied on crutches as His spoke to editors, a far cry from preparing for his turn in the rotation about Saturday.

The 26-year-old flame-throwing right-hander will miss the rest of this season (and potentially component of next year) as knee surgery will sideline him pertaining to six to nine months.

'The first couple of days were rough,' Richards claimed. 'You go from a routine regarding coming to the yard daily to being stuck for the couch. I went through the particular phase of 'Why did that happen to me?' so you kind of get past that, and it's time to move forward, it's time to deal with this, it's time to get back on the field.'

Richards crumbled to the Fenway Park field about Aug. 20 when His has been running to first starting, trying to finish off a potential twice play in the second inning. But his foot got caught in the earth and Richards laid on the infield filth for nearly 10 minutes before being carted off.

'After I heard the crop up and the crunching,' Richards claimed, 'I knew something wasn't suitable. I didn't know what it was. To begin with, it felt like I had created a bone sticking out of my body.

'It's kind of a freak crash, you can't really explain it. It's just going to be something I have to take care of.'

Richards had surgery on Aug. 22 and will try to start out his rehab in Newport Seashore, Calif., on Tuesday (a day after his stitches are removed). His explained there is 'less pain every day.'

'From what they've told me, this is an injury where you could come back 100 percent of what you were before,' Richards said. 'With the rehab and stuff, I am hoping to come back a little bit stronger. ... I'm motivated to get back on the field.'

When Richards does return, he'll end up being coming off a career 12 months, going 13-4 with a 2.Sixty one ERA in his first total season in the rotation. His or she went from rotation issue mark to possible expert and Cy Young challenger in a mere 26 starts.

'I took plenty of positives from [this season],' Richards mentioned. 'Even the games I that didn't particularly pitch well, I still took positives than it. Made some major progress with my mentality in addition to my delivery. It was another year where I felt like I made many major strides.'

Richards' major steps have left the Angels with a important hole in their rotation, that they struggled to fill Monday, the first time Richards' spot in the rotator came up. After Saturday's game, which spot is scheduled surface another five times before the end of the regular season.

'Obviously, right now, we're trying to piece that together and that's rough since that's my day,Inches Richards said. 'That's usually the day i go and work. It's really a little bit frustrating to see people having to struggle to fill of which void. We got great men on this pitching staff who is able to piece it together for any day. I think we'll be OK.'

Richards said His would try to make this to as many games as you can and has watched recent video games on TV.

'It's just different that i can see that game on TV, We turn into a fan,' Richards explained. 'It's a little bit difficult but as well, it's what I look forward to during the night.'

Montreal -- The first hockeys hit at Target Field during All-Star 7 days didn't come from a celebrity, a new Hall of Fame star or a professional slugger.

On Friday, of which honor belonged to kids with the Hopkins Challenger division and the West/South Town you live Miracle League division.

All the members in the two-inning game either had physical or mental disabilities that keep them from actively playing in the more traditional youth football leagues, but that didn't indicate they weren't slugging the golf ball all over the Target Field pitch.

Former Twins players Rod Carew and Tim Laudner were in attendance to speak and catch the game's first pitches.

'It's just a fantastic feeling to be able to do this, to be released here and share by investing in them,' Carew said.

The 18-time All-Star as well as Hall of Famer -- who were built with a field dedicated with his label in Montreal on Thursday night night as part of the Twins' legacy presenting program -- helped out with the particular Challenger/Miracle game in the week before the 2010 All-Star Game in Anaheim, anf the husband has tried to further comparable programs in California each the wishes of late teammate Harmon Killebrew.

'I know how important this event was to Harmon,' His said. 'Hopefully, I could continue to be a part of it as well as continue getting kids required.'

The Twins are very familiar with Remarkable League, a national organization that Kevin Thoresen brought to the local amount in 2005. The team merely dedicated Kevin Thoresen All-Star Miracle Field within Hibbing on Wednesday night, the particular 12th such field within Minnesota that allows kids with handicaps a safe place to play.

But the link doesn't run as strong with the Challenger League, any division of Little Little league that was the first adapted hockey program in the world when it began in 1989.

'It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the kids,' said overseer Sam Ranck. 'I heard the excitement before it not only from the players, but from the parents. Merely getting to step foot in the game and see their name on the scoreboard.'

The teams played Friday's game inside left-field corner of Target Area, with temporary bases placed around the outfield and MLB mascots cheering them on.

'When the thing is that the smiles on kids' faces today, that's while true to what the Little League program is about and what softball is about as anything,' Ranck said. 'At it's heart, softball is the American pastime. It's something everybody has the opportunity to enjoy, and this is the quintessential example right here today.'

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