(Sports Network) - Mark Teixeira and Juan Rivera each drove in two runs, as the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim pounded the Detroit Tigers, 7-1, in the rubber match of a three-game set from Comerica Park. Gary Matthews Jr. finished 4-for-5 with two doubles and two runs scored for the Angels, who have won five of their last seven games. Torii Hunter added a solo home run in the victory.

Ervin Santana (15-5) gave up one run on six hits in 7 1/3 innings to get the win. He also struck out eight and walked one.

Curtis Granderson homered for the Tigers, who have dropped eight of their last 11 contests.

It was another rough outing for Kenny Rogers (9-13), who lost for the seventh time in his last eight trips to the bump. The 43-year-old was tagged for six runs on eight hits in just two-plus innings of work. Aquilino Lopez and Nate Robertson combined to allow one run on six hits in seven innings of relief.

Rogers entered the game with a 15-inning scoreless streak against the Angels, but saw that quickly come to an end in the first inning. Matthews opened the game with a double and after Robb Quinlan lined out, Teixeira ripped an RBI double down the left-field line for an early 1-0 edge.

Los Angeles picked up another run in the second when Rivera punched a double to the gap in left-center, plating Hunter, who led off the frame with a single.

The Angels busted the game wide-open with a four-run surge in the third. Four straight hits by Sean Rodriguez, Matthews, Quinlan and Teixeira to start the inning scored two runs and chased Rogers from the mound. Lopez entered from the Tigers bullpen and Vladimir Guerrero continued the assault with a run-scoring single to center. One out later, Rivera smacked a single up the middle for a 6-0 Angels advantage.

Hunter and Granderson exchanged home runs in the eighth to round out the scoring.

Game Notes

Santana is 4-0 over his last seven starts. He also improved to 10-2 in 16 away starts this year...The Halos own the best road record in the majors at 42-26...Los Angeles pitcher Jered Weaver had his start on Friday pushed back to Monday after the right-hander sustained cuts on the middle and ring fingers of his pitching hand. The injury occurred when he gripped a bench in the visitors' dugout during Tuesday's 5-4 win. Dustin Moseley will make the start Friday in Weaver's place.







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