{"id":137117,"date":"2025-09-12T07:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T07:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/137117\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T07:06:07","slug":"angels-mike-trout-ends-career-long-drought-with-399th-homer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/137117\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels’ Mike Trout ends career-long drought with 399th homer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Angels<\/a> star Mike Trout<\/a> finally homered Thursday night in Seattle, ending a career-long 28-game homerless drought that put him one shy of reaching 400 for his career.<\/p>\n

Trout launched his 399th homer, sending a 3-2 fastball from Mariners<\/a> right-hander Bryce Miller<\/a> over the left-center-field wall to tie the score at 4-4 in the fifth inning. Seattle went on to win 7-6 in 12 innings.<\/p>\n

It was Trout’s 21st homer of the season, and his first since Aug. 6, a span of 125 plate appearances. Trout admitted that reaching the 400-homer milestone had been on his mind in August.<\/p>\n

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“I was thinking about it for a little bit in the beginning,” said Trout, a three-time AL MVP and 11-time All-Star. “But now I’m just trying to put good swings on the ball. I know it’s going to come. I’m not trying to go up there and try to hit a home run. My whole career is just putting good swings on balls and they’ve gone over the fence.”<\/p>\n

Thursday night’s homer was the 56th of Trout’s career against the Mariners, four more than any other player against Seattle. He is batting .235 with 58 RBIs this season.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Angels star Mike Trout finally homered Thursday night in Seattle, ending a career-long 28-game homerless drought…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-137117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}