{"id":7755,"date":"2014-05-16T08:55:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T12:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=7755"},"modified":"2014-05-16T08:55:44","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T12:55:44","slug":"mike-trout-hits-first-career-walk-off-as-angels-down-rays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/05\/16\/mike-trout-hits-first-career-walk-off-as-angels-down-rays\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Trout hits first career walk-off as Angels down Rays"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7756\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7756\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7756\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/miketrout.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/miketrout.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/miketrout-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7756\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Los Angeles Angels outfielder Mike Trout hit the first walk-off home run of his career on Thursday night as the Angels defeated the Tampa Bay Rays 6-5.<\/p>\n<p>I must say I was surprised to find out that this was Trout&#8217;s first walk-off since he has virtually done everything since arriving at the big league level two years ago.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/m.mlb.com\/shared\/video\/embed\/embed.html?content_id=32906619&amp;topic_id=6479266&amp;width=600&amp;height=336&amp;property=mlb\" width=\"600\" height=\"336\" frameborder=\"0\">Your browser does not support iframes.<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Trout&#8217;s home run cam eoff of Brad Boxberger but it should be noted that Grant Balfour really let the inning get started. Balfour allowed a hit and two walks before givign way to Boxberger who promptly served up the gopher ball.<\/p>\n<p>In 40 games this season Trout is hitting .269\/.357\/.531 with eight home runs and 27 RBI. It is a safe bet that all of those numbers will improve as the season goes on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Angels outfielder Mike Trout hit the first walk-off home run of his career on Thursday night as the Angels defeated the Tampa Bay Rays 6-5. I must say I was surprised to find out that this was Trout&#8217;s first walk-off since he has virtually done everything since arriving at the big league level [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,114,84,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-7755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-front","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-mike-trout","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7757,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7755\/revisions\/7757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7755"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}