LA Times · Mar 17, 2016
Don't look for any bat flips from Mike Trout
Los Angeles Angels' Mike Trout follows through on a base hit during the first inning of a spring training baseball game against the Cleveland Indians on Wednesday in Goodyear, Ariz. (Matt York / AP) This idea that a pitcher should just grin and bear it if a batter hits a mammoth home run and celebrates by flipping his bat?
Mike Trout isn't having any part of it.
"As a pitcher, I'd be pretty upset," Trout said.
And would Trout say that such a demonstrative batter would be showing up the pitcher?
"It definitely would be," the 24-year-old said.