Welcome back to the Mike Trout home run daily, where we look back at every single home run in Mike Trout’s career, one game at a time. We use a random number generator to figure out which game falls on each day.
On April 12, 2018, the Angels’ Nick Tropeano was in a pitching duel with Ian Kennedy of the Royals in Kansas City. This was a 1-0 pitchers’ duel until the seventh, when Trout singled and scored in a five-run rally.
In the eighth inning, Trout worked Brandon Maurer for an 11 pitch at-bat before homering, a line drive just over the wall in center field.