ANAHEIM -- Game recognized game early Monday afternoon at Angel Stadium, and the
Trout and Yelich are getting to know each other during what is just the Brewers’ third visit to Angel Stadium since shifting to the NL in 1998, and their first since 2010, the year before Trout’s big league debut. Yelich visited once with the Marlins in '14, but said he and Trout were only casual acquaintances.\n\n\"I don't know him that well, but I follow him because he's a young star in this game,\" Trout said. \"He plays the game hard. I love the way he plays. He had an unbelievable season last year, and his whole career has been unbelievable. Knowing the start he's having this year, it's pretty incredible to keep it going.\"\n\nAsked whether he was disappointed or thrilled that he doesn’t get to see Trout more often, Yelich laughed.\n\n“You don’t want to play against him too much because he’s such a good player,” Yelich said. “It’s definitely fun. You always want to compete against the best. That’s what you signed up for. That’s why you play the game. But you definitely don’t want him taking it out on your team too much.”\n\nBoth entered the series off to MVP-caliber starts. Yelich, who attended some games at Angel Stadium as a kid, homered in the Brewers’ first four games to match a Major League record to start a season, then hit home run No. 5 and drove in three runs on Sunday to help clinch a series victory over the Cubs. Trout, meanwhile, saw his streak of homering in four straight games come to an end by going 0-for-2 with two walks that extended his on-base streak to all 11 games this season. Trout, who is hitting .367/.574/.933 on the year, fell one game shy of tying the Angels' club record of a homer in five straight games set by Bobby Bonds from Aug. 2-7, 1977.\n\n“He didn't homer today so he had to do something,” said Angels right-hander
Chalk it up as part of Trout’s good start.\n\n“He’s always off to a good start,” said Yelich.\n\n“The easiest way to compare it is like what we have seen from Yelich in the last two months of \\[last season plus 2019\\]. That’s what Mike Trout has been doing for, like, five years,” said Counsell.\n\nAsked about the adage \"Don’t let Mike Trout beat you,\" Counsell said, “Yeah, I think it’s an easy statement to make. We are going to pitch to him. There are probably times that we aren’t going to pitch to him. It’s what every team says, and those guys still win MVPs. That’s why they win MVPs, because they are hard to get out. You have little margin for error to get them out.”
**Up next** \nThe Angels and Brewers square off again on Tuesday night, a 9:07 p.m. CT/7:07 p.m. PT first pitch, live on [MLB.TV](https://www.mlb.com/live-stream-games/2019/04/09). Right-hander