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Tuesday 26 March 2019

SILENCE

by the

baseball game against the Los LAMB

Los Angeles Angels’ Mike
Trout hits an RBI double during
the third inning of a preseason
Angeles Dodgers on Sunday,
March 24, 2019, in Anaheim,
Calif.
Associated Press

Mike Trout

says he’s

“an Angel

for life”

with new

contract

By GREG BEACHAM
AP Sports Writer
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) —
Mike Trout smiled into the
postcard-perfect Orange
County sunlight and said
exactly what every Los An-
geles Angels fan has spent
years hoping to hear.
“I know there was a lot
of talk about going back
East, but I enjoy every min-
ute being here,” Trout said Hornets down Raptors 115-114,
Sunday. “This is my home. I
love it. I think the direction Lamb hits winning 3
of the franchise, if it was go-
ing the other way, I would
have had to consider go-
ing. But it never crossed my
mind. I was going to be an Charlotte Hornets guard Jeremy Lamb (3) celebrates his game-
Angel for life, sure.”
The crowd around the winning basket against the Toronto Raptors with teammate
main entrance to Angel Devonte’ Graham, left, in an NBA basketball game Sunday,
Stadium burst into raucous March 24, 2019, in Toronto.
cheers, and so did Trout’s Associated Press
dozens of teammates and
coaches in the audience Page 20
below the podium.

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