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Real or Not? Shohei Ohtani gives Mike Trout a birthday blast

Mike Trout sat out on his birthday party, so Shohei Ohtani partied all on his own. Trout was on hand for the Los Angeles Angels' 11-5 win over Detroit on the 27th anniversary of his birth, but for the first time in his MLB career, he wasn't in the lineup on his celebratory day. Trout missed his sixth straight game with a lingering jammed wrist suffered on a slide last week.

Meanwhile, Ohtani hit his 12th homer to pace the L.A. attack, launching a three-run shot to opposite field off Detroit's Jacob Turner. It was his first three-run dinger since April 3.