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After robbing Mike Trout not once but twice, Jose Bautista could only offer a casual shrug

The Blue Jays topped the Angels, 7-2, in the first game of their four-game set on Thursday night. That final score might have looked much different if Mike Trout had managed to stop hitting the ball in the direction of José Bautista.  
In the bottom of the third, Trout laced a line drive to the gap in right-center. The ball looked destined to be a double -- except, well, that's where Bautista resides:

You would think that, as arguably the best player in baseball, Trout would have mastered the game's cardinal rule: Hit 'em where they ain't. Alas, in the bottom of the eighth, Trout again smoked a ball to deep right. You can probably guess how that ended: 

How would Bautista celebrate his outstanding defensive night? What's the appropriate reaction to robbing a man whose dinger-robbing exploits are so legendary they have their own bobblehead? Simple: ¯_(ツ)_/¯, the official way to express "Look, I know that was really cool and I'm not quite sure how I did it, either."

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