Hello again from the Mike Trout home run daily, where we remember every home run of Mike Trout’s career, one game at a time. We use a random number generator to select each game, and today we landed during the time of Baby Trout.
It was August 30, 2011, and the Angels were in Seattle, and Trout was a little over three weeks removed from his 20th birthday. This was his 21st major league game.
Trout hadn’t yet taken over center field. He struggled in that first year, hitting just .