It’s not that Mike Trout hit his 30th and 31st home runs on Sunday. It’s not that the second shot was a grand slam. It’s not that the homers helped the Angels to a 13-7 victory over the Rangers and kept them a game ahead of the Astros in the American League West.
It’s that a fan in right field was holding a net labeled “Trout net,” and Trout’s slam landed directly in it.
After the game, Trout said he noticed the net, though he stopped short of saying he dropped the ball in it intentionally.