Believe it or not, Mike Trout was struggling earlier this season. It feels crazy to say that after the incredible display he just put on at Yankee Stadium, where he hit five home runs in four games to help power the Angels to a series victory over the Yankees.
Rewind the tape back two weeks, and the three-time American League MVP wasn’t where he wanted to be at the plate. From March 30 to April 8, Trout found himself mired in a brutal, 2-for-33 slump. After homering in each of the Angels’ first two games of the season, Trout labored through a power outage, collecting just one extra-base hit during that span. While he was still hitting the ball in the air, he wasn’t hitting the ball as hard and was striking out more. His timing was off.
