Mike Trout, denier of walk-offs, makes bases-loaded game-ending catch

It's well established that Mike Trout is a baseball robot, programmable for whichever game scenario the Angels find themselves in. Sometimes, he hits walk-offs.

Other times, he robs walk-offs.  

In the ninth inning of Thursday's 6-5 win over the A's, Trout's WAR-infused circuitry was put to a test. The A's had already cut a four-run deficit to one. With two outs and the bases loaded, Ike Davis was poised for a walk-off, come-from-behind win. But when Trout is programmed to win, he wins.

Davis shellacked a pitch from Huston Street to deep center field that could've ended the game, if Trout hadn't made a running, leaping catch to end the game and preserve the Angels' win.

"I knew he hit it pretty well. [I] went back to the track, jumped up and caught it. … I tried to make a play and I did," Trout explained to MLB.com's Alden Gonzalez after the game.

Trout's teammates apppreciated his game-saver, and his neighbor in right field, Kole Calhoun, put it best: "That play goes either way, but with him out there it usually goes his way."

Like we said: Trout can do pretty much anything he's called upon to do. Even if he might have other things on his mind:

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- Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) April 30, 2015