Stop us if you've heard this one before, but Mike Trout is very good and the Los Angeles Angels are, well, not.
As can happen with even the best of jokes, this one's starting to get old.
To be clear, the joke's not on the aforementioned superstar center fielder. Though Trout was cool enough for a while there for his OPS to dip under—gasp!—the .900 mark as recently as August 25, he's since gone on a Trout-ian hot streak with 15 hits, 12 walks and five home runs since August 28.
The 29-year-old was so hot at one point that he made just one out in the span of 15 plate appearances:
Jim Passon ud83cuddf5ud83cuddf7Mike Trout’s past 15 PA’s: HR (1st PA on Friday) BB BB 1B BB K 2B HR 2B BB BB 2B Flyout BB 1B (in his first PA tonight) .