He had four swings with the bases loaded and the game in the line, which is about four more swings than usual for Mike Trout.
Entering Wednesday, Trout had been intentionally walked 18 times. Since Manny Machado is now in the National League with the Dodgers, no other AL player had more than eight intentional walks.
Of those 18, 16 had come with runners in scoring position. Then there’s all the times Trout has been walked unintentionally under the same circumstances.
At this pace, Trout would walk 148 times, a total that would crush the franchise record of 116 he set in 2016.