Welcome back to the Mike Trout home run daily, where we relive every single home run of Mike Trout’s career, one Angels game at a time. We determine each day’s home run by random number generator, and today brings us to July 18, 2017, with the Angels starting a midweek home series against the Nationals.
This was Trout’s fourth game back after missing 39 games with a torn ligament in his left thumb. He was 4-for-12 in the first three games back, though he didn’t go deep. Trout rectified that in the first inning, answering Bryce Harper’s home run in the top of the inning in a battle of 2009 draftees, hitting a ball into the rocks in left center field.