Los Angeles Angels outfielder Mike Trout became the 59th player in MLB history to hit his 400th home run when he mashed a 485-foot blast at Coors Field on Saturday.
Getting Trout over this historic finish line required a long and arduous wait. The struggling superstar went on a career-long homer-less streak spanning 28 games and 125 plate appearances before reaching No. 399. He was in the middle of a 5-for-34 slump when his mammoth shot cleared the left-center field wall in Denver.
Trout, who has 101 more home runs than any other player in Angels history, acknowledged that the milestone weighed on him for a little while after connecting for No. 398 on Aug. 6.
“I’m just trying to put good swings on the ball,” Trout said on Sept. 10. “I know it’s gonna come. I’m not trying to go up there and hit a home run. My whole career is putting good swings on the ball and them going over the fence.”
Trout’s wait is finally over. All of Trout’s home runs have come with the Angels, who drafted him in 2009 and called him up for his debut at just 19 years old in 2011. The three-time MVP recently collected his 1,000th career RBI and leads the team’s career marks in nearly every statistical category. Only 25 players have hit 400 home runs for one team. Trout has hit exactly 200 career homers at home and 200 on the road.
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It’s unclear who will be next to join Trout in the 400 home run club. Giancarlo Stanton hit his 450th on Saturday and the No. 3 active home run leader is his Yankees teammate, Paul Goldschmidt, who sits at 372. Padres third baseman Manny Machado has 368, while Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman has 364.
This home run serves as a silver lining in a career-worst season for Trout. He’s striking out this season at a career-high 32.0 percent clip. He’s batting just .229, with a .772 OPS. Decent by most standards, but well below his. He’s said he’s pulling off balls, and his body is flying open in his swing path. It’s made it more difficult to make hard contact or even recognize the pitch clearly.
Trout’s injuries over the last five seasons will likely rob him of the chance to reach some of baseball’s most important milestones. Three thousand hits will be nearly impossible, and even 500 home runs isn’t a sure thing. That’s what makes a milestone like home run No. 400 especially important for Trout, who will still go down as one of the game’s all-time greatest hitters.
It’s been more than 14 years since a boyish Trout hit his first big-league home run on the 38th at-bat of his career in Baltimore. It took him a while to hit the first long ball, but he became a prolific power hitter in the years that followed, supplementing home runs with elite speed, a high batting average, and superb center-field defense.
His 100th home run came on April 17, 2015, more than a decade ago. He would pick up No. 200 at the tail end of the 2017 season. His 300th was in a depressing environment — at an empty stadium, in the first game of a seven-inning doubleheader in 2020. And now No. 400 in a building where the fans could celebrate his historic achievement.
For Trout, the Hall of Fame is a sure thing. His number will someday be retired by the Angels, and he will go down as the franchise’s greatest player, with arguably one of the best sets of prime seasons of any player in the game’s history.
This 400th home run represented a chance to laud a special career, at a time when so much of the conversation surrounding him is focused on his injuries, struggles and fight to return to form.
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