LA Angels' Mike Trout is youngest AL player to hit for cycle in MLB

Angels player Mike Trout even surprised himself in adding to his growing list of impressive big league achievements.

Trout hit for the cycle and drove in five runs, Josh Hamilton celebrated his 32nd birthday with a homer and a triple his first two times up, and Howie Kendrick also went deep in the Los Angeles Angels' 12-0 rout of the Seattle Mariners.

Trout, last season's AL rookie of the year and MVP runner-up, became the youngest AL player to hit for the cycle and third youngest in the major leagues since 1930. He is also the sixth player in Angels history to complete the cycle and the first to do it since Chone Figgins on September 16, 2006, at Texas.

"It was one of those nights," 21-year-old Trout said. "I didn't really think about it until about the eighth inning. And when I got on deck, I started feeling it a little bit. To be honest, I thought Josh was going to hit for the cycle after those first two at-bats. I wasn't thinking about myself."

After taking a called third strike his first time up, Trout reached on an infield single in the third inning, hit an RBI triple in the fourth and added a three-run double in the sixth before smacking a homer in the eighth on a 2-0 pitch from Lucas Luetge.

"At 2-0 I was swinging at anything," Trout said. "It was in the back of my mind, trying to hit a home run. I just barrelled it up and it went out. It feels great."