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Celebrates Twenty-Sixth Birthday with 1,000th Career Hit Mike Trout has a real flair for special occasions. Not content to simply celebrate his twenty-sixth birthday with cake eating and gift unwrapping, he opted to punctuate the day with a milestone hit. When he laced a fourth- inning double down the leftfield line in a scoreless game against the Baltimore Orioles, he collected the 1,000th hit of his career. And, he put the proverbial icing on the birthday cake two innings later by slugging a game-tying home run, his 23rd of the season. Manny Machado put a damper on the celebration by cranking a grand slam in the seventh inning that led to a 6–2 Baltimore win. Trout joined this Hall of Fame trio—Mel Ott, Jimmie Foxx, and Mickey Mantle— as the only players in history to compile 1,000 hits, score 500 runs, and have 500 walks by their age twenty-five season.

On his twenty-sixth birthday, Trout collected his 1,000th career hit against the Baltimore Orioles.

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