Sluggers Mike Trout, Giancarlo Stanton and Pitcher Kyle Hendricks all achieved some Major Milestones tonight...
Let's start with Trout. Just about every baseball fan in the Country has known that LA Angels slugger Mike Trout had been trying to reach that 400 Home Run milestone for what has seemed like an eternity.
Well, tonight he became the 59th ball player to knock 400 pitches out of the park in the century and a half that men have been playing the game at the professional level. He joins the Yankee's Giancarlo Stanton as the only two active players in the exclusive 400 Home Run Club. And he's only the 20th to have hit 400 all for one team.
But wait, there's more! About an hour before Trout launched his eighth-inning, milestone moon shot--a 485' blast--Stanton hit his 450th four-bagger! I watched that one, too! The Angels and the Yankees both won their games impressively. Stanton's teammate, Aaron Judge, also touched them all this evening and he's on pace to hit 50 again this year. Judge is the front runner to pick up his third AL MVP Award for 2025, though the Mariner's switch-hitting slugger Cal Raleigh is having an amazing season as well.
And would you believe that Angels Pitcher Kyle Hendricks made his 300th Career Start in this memorable game tonight? Yeah, he sure did! So he and Mike both achieved major milestones with tonight's 3-0 victory over the Rockies. It's a night baseball fans--Angels fans, especially--will remember for a very long time.
"Bulldog Ben" Basile
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