Trout adds to hot return, hits 454-foot HR in win

BOSTON -- It hasn't taken Mike Trout agelong to regain his signifier aft missing a period with a bruised near knee.

Trout had 3 much hits connected Monday night, including a 454-foot homer that was the longest astatine Fenway Park this year, successful the Los Angeles Angels' 7-6 triumph implicit the Boston Red Sox - his 2nd three-hit crippled successful 3 starts since returning from the injured database connected Friday.

"Anybody that knows Mike Trout shouldn't beryllium surprised," Angels manager Ron Washington said. "Mike Trout tin inactive bash a batch of things that a batch of radical can't do. And he's showing that."

Trout deed a three-run homer successful the archetypal inning and singled successful his adjacent 2 at-bats. In the seventh, helium grounded into a treble play but said helium had nary occupation with his near genu arsenic helium tried to bushed the relay.

In all, the 11-time All-Star and three-time AL MVP is 8 for 14 since coming disconnected the IL to rise his batting mean from .179 to .225. It was lone his 2nd homer successful 35 vocation games astatine Fenway Park.

Trout, 33, said helium was capable to enactment connected his plaything portion helium was out, though helium was constricted to 30-40 swings per day. The interruption helped him reset immoderate atrocious habits helium had developed, helium said.

The 3 hits connected Monday gave Trout 1,675 successful his vocation and moved him into 2nd spot connected the franchise list, surpassing Tim Salmon. Garret Anderson holds the Angels grounds with 2,368.

Zach Neto homered starring disconnected the game, Trout added a three-run changeable and Jo Adell enactment 1 implicit the Green Monster to marque it 6-0 - each successful the first. It was the archetypal clip successful the 114-year past of Fenway Park that a visiting squad has deed 3 homers successful the archetypal inning, according to MLB.com.

"Anytime you acceptable records successful a stadium similar this, it's beauteous special," Trout said. "It's beauteous crazy."