Wednesday night was like any other for Mike Trout.
Then suddenly, it wasn’t.
Shortly after the Angels’ loss to the Tampa Bay Rays, Trout was approached in the clubhouse by reliever Steve Cishek.
“Do you know if anything happened to Albert?” Trout remembered Cishek asking him. “He’s hugging some teammates.”
Trout soon learned what the rest of the baseball world would find out a day later. In a surprise move, the Angels were releasing Albert Pujols. After 10 seasons together, Trout and Pujols would be teammates no more.