![]() ![]() Mike Trout's wielding a skillset without a weakness. Mike Trout makes an above-average amount of contact. Mike Trout is also going to hit infield singles and steal a lot of bases. Mike Trout is going to hit home runs, and in fact he's slugging. The big thing is a dinger, the little thing is an infield single, and the guy is me. This is a classic case of a guy ignoring a big thing to focus on a little thing. They'll never experiment again, because what they made is too powerful to control. In case you were wondering if they made Angels faster than Peter Bourjos, they experimented once. Here, Trout gets jammed inside and doesn't get moving until the ball's well in play. Trout stands in the other box, and where Ichiro's momentum often pulls him toward first, Trout's momentum often pulls him toward third. We've seen things like this from Ichiro, but Ichiro's left-handed, and he gets himself a running start out of the box. Keep in mind that Mike Trout is right-handed. If you'd like to just stare at Mike Trout the whole time, and really, why wouldn't you: No Padres player did anything wrong in this sequence, and Mike Trout singled, and shortly stole second. First baseman Yonder Alonso didn't do anything wrong he scooped the ball and kept his foot on the base. Cabrera didn't do anything wrong he charged the ball, he transferred it to his throwing hand without a problem and he made a strong and reasonably accurate throw on the move. Trout didn't hit a routine grounder, but he all but hit a routine grounder, and that routine grounder was a single.īrach didn't do anything wrong he threw an inside fastball in a good spot and generated a good result. ![]() It was a slow roller, but not too slow a roller - when the camera switches from the pitch to the defense, your assumption is an out. Brach jammed Trout with an inside fastball, and Trout sent a roller to shortstop Everth Cabrera. Leading off the top of the tenth, Trout got into a 1-and-2 count against Brad Brach, a Padres reliever you've never heard of who's averaging better than a strikeout an inning. This post is about one of Mike Trout's Sunday afternoon ground balls. This post isn't about Mike Trout's Sunday-afternoon home run. The ball came off Trout's bat at upwards of 107 miles per hour and it settled in the left-center second deck. Sunday afternoon, Trout hit a home run in Petco Park, which nobody has ever done. Sunday afternoon, 20-year-old outfielder Mike Trout played a baseball game in Petco Park, which relatively few people have ever done. ![]()
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