Trout will bat third and play right field against Chicago, and left-hander Reid Detmers will start on the mound in that game. This decision by the Angels means the next possible Trout-Ohtani matchup will come on March 5 when these two teams play a spring training contest at Tempe Diablo Stadium in Tempe, Arizona.

In his spring training debut Friday, Shohei Ohtani picked up where he left off in his 50-50 2024 campaign. The Los Angeles Dodgers star hit a full-count, opposite-field home run in his first at-bat in Arizona,

In the offseason before the 2024 MLB season, the Dodgers stunned the baseball world when they gave former Los Angeles Angels two-way star a record-shattering $700 million contract