After robbing Mike Trout not once but twice, Jose Bautista could only offer a casual shrug
The Blue Jays topped the Angels, 7-2, in the first game of their four-game set on Thursday night. That final score might have looked much different if
In the bottom of the third, Trout laced a line drive to the gap in right-center. The ball looked destined to be a double -- except, well, that's where Bautista resides:
You would think that, as arguably the best player in baseball, Trout would have mastered the game's cardinal rule: Hit 'em where they ain't. Alas, in the bottom of the eighth, Trout again smoked a ball to deep right. You can probably guess how that ended:
How would Bautista celebrate his outstanding defensive night? What's the appropriate reaction to robbing a man whose dinger-robbing exploits are so legendary they have their own bobblehead? Simple: ¯_(ツ)_/¯, the official way to express "Look, I know that was really cool and I'm not quite sure how I did it, either."
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