Shohei Ohtani is cool; there’s no doubting that. Yet there’s nothing in the world that matches Mike Trout when he goes out hunting prey, taking the bad ones until that poor pitcher is forced to come in the zone, and then the result is all but certain. Goodbye, baseball.
And when the two hit back-to-back, like they did Saturday night, there will be some happy Angels fans.
Twice, Trout worked the count full against James Shields, and twice, he demolished the baseball.
The immortal notwithstanding, the mortal parts of the ball game were really, really weird.