Mike Trout robs HR, catches runner at home in extras, may actually be human highlight reel

Baseball is fundamentally a team sport, with action spread across a ton of variables. Sure, starting pitchers bear a lot of responsibility when they take the ball but they're also largely at the mercy of the defense behind them and the randomness of batted balls. For everyone else, the opportunities to truly impact a given game are even more limited: four or five at bats on an ordinary night, with a few mostly routine plays in the field thrown in.

So, it's rare for one position player to repeatedly swing the outcome of a game. Something that is also rare: Mike Trout.

The Rockies and Angels were deadlocked at one heading into extra innings. Colorado, thinking it was merely playing a baseball game, attempted to score the potential game-winning run. Unfortunately, they had unwittingly stepped into the Mike Trout Thunderdome.

First, in the top of the tenth, Trout pulled off what might be the most casual home run robbery in history:

Robbing a home run, we've been led to believe, is a pretty difficult thing to do! It involves sprinting backwards, identifying a large wall and lots of athleticism and coordination. All of which Mike Trout just made look like it was a Sunday morning stroll.

Somehow not yet discouraged, though, the Rockies would try again in the eleventh. Those poor, poor fools:

The Angels would walk off with the win in the bottom of the inning, thanks to an Albert Pujols sac fly -- one that would have only tied the game if not for Trout's throw, and wouldn't have even happened if not for Trout's catch. 

The moral of this story: do not come between Mike Trout and Mike Trout's hats.