VIDEO: Tommy LaStella, Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani go Back-to-Back-to-Back off M's Yusei Kikuchi
By Karl Rasmussen
What started off as a quiet fourth inning on the mound quickly turned hectic for Yusei Kikuchi. Tommy La Stella stepped up to the plate and ripped a solo shot, his 14th of the year. Next up was the most feared man in the game, Mike Trout, and you know he was looking to show up LaStella, doing exactly that with a dinger of his own.
Mike Trout with a rocket to make it back-to-back. pic.twitter.com/1XDwqruLkG
— Fabian Ardaya (@FabianArdaya) June 9, 2019
Trout absolutely crushed that pitch, bringing his home run tally up to 17. But boy, oh boy, the Angels weren't done there.
Shohei Ohtani stepped up to the plate for a highly coveted matchup between batter and pitcher. Ohtani got a meatball of a breaking pitch and sent it into the seats, making it back-to-back-to-back home runs for the Angels.
AND I OOP--- pic.twitter.com/CjJKmXccbX
— Cut4 (@Cut4) June 9, 2019
Kikuchi lost this round of the battle between him and Ohtani, former rivals in the Japanese Pacific League, but there will be plenty of matchup's to come between these two.