Kings troll Jose Altuve with trash can during 'look-a-like' game

Houston Astros second baseman Jose Altuve Troy Taormina-USA TODAY Sports

Watch: Kings troll Astros' Jose Altuve with trash can during 'look-a-like' game

By Adam Gretz | Last updated 10/14/22

Los Angeles still has a strong dislike for Jose Altuve and the Houston Astros, and we saw that play out on Thursday night during a scoreboard look-a-like game that took place at the Kings-Seattle Kraken game.

During a stoppage, the scoreboard showed several Los Angeles Dodgers players on the scoreboard next to random fans in the stands who looked like them. Then things escalated.

Just after Dodgers star Max Muncy was shown, the scoreboard put up a picture of Altuve. Instead of showing a random fan in the stands, he was compared to a trash can.

The LA Kings did a “Look Alike” game on their video board, featuring fans that look like Dodgers players ... And Jose Altuve with a at the end.

(via @LAKingsGirl19) pic.twitter.com/gAdmSApVKB
— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) October 14, 2022

There are a couple of different ways to take that. Are the Kings calling Altuve trash? A reference to the trash can that the Astros used to signal batters about incoming pitches during the 2017 season and playoffs when they won the World Series? A combination of the two? Any and all are possible.

The Astros, of course, beat the Dodgers in that 2017 World Series in seven games to claim their first championship.

A couple of years later when their sign stealing scheme was exposed, general manager Jeff Luhnow and manager A.J. Hinch were suspended for the entire 2020 season, while the team was fined $5 million and lost multiple first- and second-round draft picks in the 2020 and 2021 classes.

No players were ever punished or suspended.

Altuve was the 2017 American League MVP and hit two home runs in the World Series against the Dodgers that season.

Both the Dodgers and Astros are still playing in the postseason so there is a chance they could meet again in the World Series in a few weeks.

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