In appreciation of Mike Trout’s consistent greatness, Mike Trout Monday is For The Win’s weekly roundup of stuff Mike Trout did.
You ever feel like you’re on a hamster wheel? You are, friend. All your running will get you nowhere and guarantee you nothing in this world save suffering. Existence is a bleak and purposeless endeavor certain to make fools of us all, with respite offered only to the exceptionally lucky and the exceptionally wealthy.
Anyway, Mike Trout socked three dingers and posted a .273/.484/.818 slash line in seven games since our last Mike Trout Monday. The Angels went 2-5. Same as it ever was.
Here’s Trout’s first homer of the week, to distract you from the notion that all your best efforts have failed to exempt you from further such efforts, and avert your attention from the hard truth that you have no alternative but to keep chugging inconsequentially forward:
Here’s Trout’s second of the week, to remind you that fleeting moments of beauty and glory do exist on this pointless planet, and that you can seize upon these triumphs to briefly escape relentless reality:
Here’s Mike Trout’s third dinger of the week, to tease you with just enough hope to keep that wheel churning in the face of mounting evidence that it will yield nothing but misery:
Trout now leads the American League in runs scored, on-base percentage, OPS, OPS+ and Wins Above Replacement. He is now on pace for new career highs in home runs, walks, OBP and OPS and WAR. The Angels are on pace to finish 76-86 and fall completely out of contention by sometime in August.
