.MikeTrout's making his 10th All-Star Game appearance this year — but he might have to share the spotlight with his special guest.
hit leadoff in front of boyhood idol Derek Jeter and had a locker next to the New York Yankees shortstop, who was playing his final All-Star Game.
“He’s starting to realize that I play baseball. … I don’t know if he realizes everything, but he’s starting to get a little bit, you know, when I come on TV and when I bring him into the clubhouse after the games. It’s going to be special.” Young Beckham has already starred in a social-media video in which he throws a pitch that Trout whacks with a toy bat in his Newport Beach home, after which the onesie-wearing toddler says, “Now Beckham do it!” Beckham is sure to steal some TV time away from his famous father this week.
“I didn’t know Mike Trout personally before this season, but getting to know him as I have now, it just increases what you look at as star power, as the face of this game,” said Angels interim manager Phil Nevin, the New York Yankees’ third base coach from 2018 to 2021. Trout usually destroys breaking balls in the zone — he has a major league-best .866 slugging percentage on such pitches since the start of the 2018 season.
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