Boxscore Breakdown #77: Mike Trout is everything – Angels 4, Yankees 1

The Angels beat the Yankees. Actually, that’s not true. Mike Trout beat the Yankees. He did everything you could possibly ask for short of curing cancer. He had a homer, two amazing game-saving catches and then stole a base, pretty much just prove that he could. I’m sure he’s just saving the cancer cure for the series finale.

Angels 4, Yankees 1

Run Expectancy Rundown
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[googleapps domain=”docs” dir=”spreadsheets/d/1qLne9rT-RK5AOz8ZGZl2p0HyBjz6nRUG19-W311FdOs/pubchart” query=”oid=1154832181&format=interactive” width=”620″ height=”341″ /] Brett Gardner gave C.J. fits all game long as did Didi Gregorius. Apparently Wilson forgot he had the platoon advantage in this game. Poor Chris Young was very close to having a fantastic day, but then Mike Trout happened… twice.

Starting Pitcher Scores
[googleapps domain=”docs” dir=”spreadsheets/d/1qLne9rT-RK5AOz8ZGZl2p0HyBjz6nRUG19-W311FdOs/pubchart” query=”oid=161400381&format=interactive” width=”584″ height=”293″ /] C.J. Wilson will leave this game with a decent looking line, but he really wasn’t very good. One could argue that if Mike Trout didn’t make that first amazing catch then C.J. would’ve been headed to the showers rather early once again. C.C. Sabathia pitched 7.1 innings, but it wasn’t like he was dominating. He was just efficiently mediocre.

Bullpen Battle
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Game Flow
[googleapps domain=”docs” dir=”spreadsheets/d/1qLne9rT-RK5AOz8ZGZl2p0HyBjz6nRUG19-W311FdOs/pubchart” query=”oid=451609002&format=interactive” width=”619″ height=”316″ /] Thanks to Mike Trout’s heroics, the Angels only saw their win probability dip below 50% for just a few at-bats here and there. Clearly Trout was just toying with the Yankees.

Halo Hero

Mike Trout is everything.