CLEVELAND (AP) – Ryan Garko hit his first career homer and drove in four runs to help Cliff Lee win for the first time in nearly a month, leading the Cleveland Indians over the Los Angeles Angels 14-2 Thursday night.

Garko hit a three-run double that capped Cleveland’s seven-run fourth inning, then opened the sixth with a 431-foot drive to center.

Cleveland won consecutive games for the first time since July 3-4 and won its first series since taking two of three from Cincinnati June 30-July 2.

The Angels, who dropped 3 games behind AL West-leading Oakland, lost starter Ervin Santana (12-6) after five pitches. The right-hander bruised the inside of his left knee when hit by a line drive off the bat of Jason Michaels and is day to day. Los Angeles already is without 2005 AL Cy Young Award winner Bartolo Colon, on the disabled list due to tendinitis in his right arm.

Lee (10-8), one of four players acquired by Cleveland in a June 2002 trade that sent Colon to the Montreal Expos, improved to 1-2 in five starts since July 13. The left-hander, signed to a three-year, $14 million contract extension Tuesday, allowed two runs and nine hits over seven innings in his 100th career start. He struck out five without a walk, improving to 45-25 in his career.

Travis Hafner hit his career-high 34th homer. Hafner and rookie Shin-Soo Choo had three RBIs each for Cleveland, which had 17 hits.

Kevin Gregg replaced Santana and yielded two runs in the first on a ground-rule double by Choo and RBI infield single by Joe Inglett.

Cleveland put runners on second and third with no outs in the second but scored only once on an RBI groundout by Hafner.

Vladimir Guerrero singled to open the Angels’ fourth and Juan Rivera followed with his 20th homer, pulling the Angels to 3-2.

But Michaels doubled home two runs against J.C. Romero in the bottom half, Hafner had an RBI double and Choo hit a run-scoring single to make it 7-2. Garko then sliced an opposite-field drive to right off Hector Carrasco for three more runs.

Victor Martinez and Choo each drove in runs in the fifth.

Notes: Angels 3B Chone Figgins, one of the fastest runners in baseball, needed all of his speed to avoid getting hit by a flying piece of a broken bat in the third. SS Orlando Cabrera hit a foul ball that went past Figgins leading off third, with the barrel of the bat sailing straight at Figgins, too. … Hafner’s double in the fourth stopped an 0-for-15 streak. … Aaron Boone switched from third base to second base in the seventh inning for Cleveland. He had not played second since appearing in 19 games there for Cincinnati in 2003. He replaced Inglett, who sprained his left foot. … Romero’s ERA soared to 7.54 as he gave up six runs in only one-third of an inning. … A female fan was helped from the first row behind the Angels dugout in the eighth after being hit by Maicer Izturis’ bat. He lost control of the bat when he swung and missed at a pitch from RHP Fausto Carmona. As the bat went sailing into the stands, Martinez doubled over in pain, having been hit in the foot with the pitch.