Giancarlo Stanton hit his 33rd home run of the season on Thursday, giving him 300 for his career.

Stanton reached the mark in 1,119 games, making him the fifth fastest to hit the milestone behind Ralph Kiner, Ryan Howard, Juan Gonzalez and Alex Rodriguez.

At 28, Stanton was the ninth-youngest player to hit 300.

The Los Angeles Angels have announced that Shohei Ohtani will return to the mound on Sunday night for the first time since spraining the ulnar collateral ligament in his right pitching elbow nearly three months ago.

The Angels will face the Houston Astros on ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball.

Ohtani has thrown up to 50 pitches in the bullpen. It was initially feared that he might need Tommy John surgery.

"We will monitor that very closely," Mike Scioscia said. "We will have a range, but we are going to wait and talk internally to see what he is going to be able to do and see how the game is going."

Ohtani was excellent over nine starts before getting hurt, going 4-1 with a 3.10 ERA.

The San Francisco Giants have agreed to trade Andrew McCutchen to the New York Yankees, according to a source.

According to multiple reports, the Yankees will send infielder Abiatal Avelino and another minor leaguer to the Giants.

McCutchen is batting .255 with 15 homers, 55 RBIs and 13 stolen bases in 130 games this season.

He is in the final season of a six-year, $51.5 million contract he signed in March 2012.

The Houston Astros will extend the contract of manager A.J. Hinch.

An official announcement is expected sometime Thursday.

Jeff Luhnow said earlier this summer that his hope was to "have [Hinch] here as my manager for as long as I'm here."

Luhnow received an extension this year that runs through the 2023 season.

The Kansas City Royals have traded Lucas Duda to the Atlanta Braves in exchange for cash.

The Royals are covering about half of Duda's remaining salary.

Duda is hitting .242/.311/.415 this season.

The Los Angeles Dodgers have claimed Ryan Madson off revocable trade waivers from the Washington Nationals.

The Dodgers and Nationals will have 48 hours to work out a trade from the claiming point, which was reportedly Wednesday afternoon.

Madson has $1.36 million remaining on his contract for this season.

The Texas Rangers have moved Martin Perez to the bullpen for the remainder of the season.

They have also informed him that they don't plan on picking up his $7.5 million option for 2019.

"We told Martin that if the decision had to be made today, we probably wouldn't exercise the option," Jon Daniels said. "It's possible we could still work something out for him to continue his career here. We want to take this time to evaluate him in a bullpen role."

Perez, 27, has a 6.95 ERA in 68 2/3 innings this season.

Christian Yelich went 6-for-6 and hit for the cycle in the Milwaukee Brewers' 13-12 win over the Cincinnati Reds in 10 innings on Wednesday night.

Yelich is the eighth member of the Brewers to accomplish the feat and he tied a club record with the six hits. He is just the fourth player since 1920 to have six hits in a cycle.

"It's one of those things you never really expect to do," Yelich said. "Obviously, you've got to have some luck involved in it; that's always a factor when you do something like that."

Albert Pujols will miss the rest of the season after undergoing surgery on his left knee.

The recovery time for the surgery is typically at least six weeks and the last day of the regular season is Sept. 30.

Pujols had gone on the disabled list with inflammation in his left knee.

He has three years remaining on his 10-year, $240 million deal with the Los Angeles Angels.

After attributing a terrible week on the mound to medication prescribed to him for his heart condition, Kenley Jansen has stopped taking it.

Jansen spent 11 days on the disabled list with an irregular heartbeat and returned to go 0-2 with a blown save while allowing seven hits, five runs and four home runs in three one-inning appearances last week.

The Los Angeles Dodgers reliever said that he felt like he was "sleepwalking" on the field due to the medication.

"I thought the first day maybe it would get better," Jansen said. "Then the second day, it was the same. And the third day ... "

Jansen, who underwent heart surgery in 2012, expects to have a second surgery in the offseason.