Mike Trout makes history, yet again at Angel Stadium

ANAHEIM, Calif. - In what's already been an impressive resume for Mike Trout, he became the first to accomplish another historic feat against the Tampa Bay Rays Tuesday afternoon.

Following a three-run homer in the third inning, Trout hit his 398th career home run and became the 27th player all-time to hit 200 home runs in one ballpark, and also became the first player to have 200 plus home runs and 100 stolen bases in one ballpark.

"I definitely been thinking about it." Trout said when asked about narrowing in on home run number 400.

"The biggest thing for me is I can trust the work in the game and translate into the game when 400 comes."

While the Angels suffered a 5-4 loss to the Rays, Trout showed signs of heating up on the baseball field.

Trout's homer came after the Angels were facing a 4-0 deficit against the Rays in the bottom half of the third inning. Tampa Bay scored in three consecutive innings, courtesy of the home run ball against Angels starting pitcher Tyler Anderson. Two of their homers were off the bat of Junior Caminero. The other one was hit by Nick Fortest in the second.

Caminero had a two-run homer to start the first, then hit a solo shot in the third.

Trailing by four in the bottom half of the third, the Angels offense started strong to begin the inning, then faded, then took off at full speed.

The inning was kicked off by Luis Rengifo and Christian Moore reaching base safely to open it up. After Moore, Bryce Teodosio, and Zach Neto struck out swinging, to put the Angels in a two-out deficit.

Looking to get some run support, Nolan Schanuel hit a blooper towards right, to score Rengifo from second and give the Angels their first run of the day.

After Schanuel, it was time for Trout.

Sitting in a 2-2 count, Trout's bat fired away when Shane Baz threw a 95 MPH cutter in the lower part of the strike zone.

Trout mustered up some strength on the ball and sent it 430 feet deep to the upper part of the Angels' bullpen to tie the game at 4.

Trout had a slow start following the All-Star Break but has heated up as of late, hitting .280 with 7 hits, one home run and 3 RBIs.

"My work in the cage has been great," Trout said. "I'm just trying to translate into the game."

The Angels and Rays went from a slugfest to a duel between the two bullpens from the fourth to the sixth innings. Anderson pitched through the fourth, then the Angels had Connor Brogdon and Brock Burke take the mound. All three innings resulted in zero runs scored by the Rays. The Angels left four runners on base between the innings, but couldn't drive anyone home.

"The bullpen did a great job to keep us in the game," Angels interim manager Ray Montgomer said. "We just didn't get it done."

The Rays had two batters reach base between the innings, but couldn't find a way to score either.

But in the seventh, they relied on pure strength for the fourth time of the day, hitting their fourth homer on a solo shot by Christopher Morel on the first pitch of the seventh inning.

Ryan Zeferjahn came out of the bullpen and threw a 91 MPH cutter that went 424 feet towards left field.

The Angels rallied in the bottom half of the eighth after Trout opened the inning by beating out a throw from second base for an infield single for his second hit of the afternoon.

Trout has been dealing with a sore knee this year that dates back to last season when he had surgery for a torn meniscus.

"It's feeling a little better," Trout said. "There's times where I have to run hard. I was trying to get that inning started there and I got a base hit."

The rest of the Angels' lineup followed Trout's lead after the single when both Taylor Ward and Jo Adell reached base safely from a walk and catcher's interference to load the bases with zero out.

The next three batters the Angels, however, dropped like flies. Striking swinging to end the inning.

"You certainly expect to come away with at least one there. Maybe more," Montgomery said. "Obviously (Rays pitcher Griffin Jax) tough. He made some pitches there too."

"Try to get get some contact. Put a ball in play. Something would have been good because our pitchers did a great job."

Kenley Jansen came in to pitch for the ninth inning and retired three of the four batters he faced without giving up a run. But the Angels offense went down in order at the end of the game.

Post Game Notes

On Saturday's game against the Tigers, Yusei Kikuchi will be the starting pitcher for the Angels in place of Jack Kochanowicz. Montgomery had no update if Kochanowicz will pitch on Sunday and said he will need to talk to pitching coach Barry Enright.