The Latest Breaking News from Mike Trout

SEATTLE — The storyline is simple, familiar and expected:

It was a no-hitter bid that began with a base hit.

Home plate umpire Nate Tomlinson was forced to leave the field with the game nearly over.

A month ago, Major League Baseball was making a big deal about its big teams in its big markets.

And we finally learned who won Mike Trout’s fantasy football league.

He said it was a 12-man league and people have been reaching out and asking to join.

ANAHEIM, Calif. ― The Angels are scheduled to play another 101 games in 2022, and only six in their creamy “City Connect” uniforms. They might want to re-think that.

Leave it to Shohei Ohtani to rescue the Angels.

There was no live chicken to sacrifice, and a bonfire of bats didn’t make sense, so in an effort to snap their two-week skid, the Angels all used the same walk-up song — some portion of “Photograph,” by Nickelback — throughout Wednesday night’s game against the Boston Red Sox.

Joe Maddon’s head was the first to roll but the problems don’t stop there.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — The optimism of a change in the Angels’ manager’s office eventually gave way to more frustration, in the form of a franchise-record 13th consecutive loss and an injury to Mike Trout.