Angels remain in full swing - Shrugging off the loss of Guerrero to a minor injury, they get 15 hits, erase 3-1 deficit and rout Indians, 10-3, in battle of division leaders.

With Vladimir Guerrero watching from the dugout -- the slugger was scratched because of an inflamed right triceps, an injury that is not believed to be serious -- the Angels pounded out 15 hits and cooled the hottest team in baseball in a 10-3 victory over the Cleveland Indians in Angel Stadium.

The Angels batted around during a game-altering four-run rally in the fifth inning and pulled away with five runs in their last three at-bats to extend their American League West lead over Seattle to eight games, equaling their largest cushion of the season, and reduce their magic number for clinching the division to 16.

Those rolling blackouts during the recent heat wave didn't affect Garret Anderson, whose power surge continued with a run-scoring single in the fifth, which gave him RBIs in a franchise-record 11 consecutive games, and a two-run home run in the eighth.

Anderson also had an infield single in the fourth and is batting .415 (27 for 65) with nine home runs and 31 runs batted in over his last 18 games. He has a major league-leading 56 RBIs since the All-Star break.

Casey Kotchman capped the fifth-inning rally with a two-run double and added an RBI double in the seventh, and Gary Matthews Jr., Orlando Cabrera, Kendry Morales and Reggie Willits each had two hits for the Angels, who went seven for 13 with runners in scoring position.

"When people talk about our team, they always talk about Vlad, and sometimes the rest of the guys don't get the credit they should," said Kelvim Escobar, who gave up three runs and eight hits, striking out eight and walking three, in 5 2/3 innings to gain the win and improve to 16-7.

"Vlad is one of the best hitters in the league, but at the same time, we're playing good baseball right now. This was a team effort. We have a lot of weapons that a lot of AL teams don't have."

Anderson, finally sound after suffering from various back, leg and foot injuries the last three seasons, is their most lethal one at the moment.

With the Angels trailing, 3-1, he came up with two on and two out in the fifth inning and rifled an RBI single past Cleveland starter Paul Byrd and into center field, breaking the previous club record of RBIs in 10 consecutive games, set by Wally Joyner in 1986 and Fred Lynn in 1984.