Welcome back to the Mike Trout home run daily, where we relive every single home run of Mike Trout’s career, one game at a time. We use a random number generator to pick each game.
Today’s game was May 7, 2015, the opener of a four-game weekend series against the Astros on a Thursday night in Anaheim. Hector Santiago and Collin McHugh engaged in a pitchers’ duel.
Trout struck early, hitting the second pitch he saw in the first inning over the wall in center field. Scroll to 1:40 of this video to watch:
It followed an odd pattern at home for Trout in 2015.