Trout makes outs
It was a rough MLB Opening Day for Mike Trout. He grounded out to short in his first at-bat and flied out to right in his second. After Zack Cozart homered to make it 4-0 Angels, Trout grounded out to third in the top of the fifth. The seventh inning brought a foul out to first and Trout was sitting on an 0-for-4. With the score tied in the tenth, Trout led off with a fly out to center and was now 0-for-5.
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Trout’s worst plate appearance came in the top of the 11th, with the score still tied at five. A two-out single by Martin Maldonado lit a spark and Zack Cozart kept it going with an infield single to put runners on first-and-second. Surely the great Mike Trout would come through with a go-ahead knock? Nope. He struck out swinging. Then the A’s pushed a run across the plate in the bottom of the inning for an Opening Day victory.
In seven seasons and 925 career games, Mike Trout had never gone 0-for-6 until today. He’s been 0-for-5 fourteen times. He was 1-for-6 once. He was even 1-for-8 one time, back on April 29, 2013, when the Angels lost to Oakland in 19 innings. Fittingly, Trout’s 0-for-6 showing today was also in an extra-innings loss to the A’s.
It could be the Coliseum. Coming into today’s game, Trout had a career batting line of .306/.410/.566, but had hit just .266/.351/.528 at the Coliseum. I mean, that’s still a great batting line, but it’s much worse than he’s hit most everywhere else.
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Trout took it in stride, though. After the game, he posted a picture of his beautiful wife on his Instagram story with the caption, “Tough one today but she makes me feel better . . . tomorrow is a new day!” Indeed it is, Mike Trout, indeed it is.