LOS ANGELES – Jered Weaver won his fifth consecutive decision and Reggie Willits and Howie Kendrick keyed a two-out, three-run rally with RBI singles in the fifth inning, helping the Los Angeles Angels defeat the Dodgers 3-0 Saturday.

The loss ended the Dodgers’ four-game winning streak and dropped them out of first place in the NL West.

Weaver (6-3) allowed four hits in 5 1-3 innings, with four walks and three strikeouts to give the Angels’ rotation its major league-leading 38th win.

Francisco Rodriguez struck out the side in the ninth for his AL-leading 22nd save in 23 chances.

Five consecutive Angels got on base in the fifth, with three of them scoring.

Willits drove a 1-2 pitch to right field to give the Dodgers a 2-0 lead. That chased Jason Schmidt (1-4), who gave up three runs and five hits in 4 2-3 innings, walked four, struck out two and had two wild pitches.

Schmidt’s pitches topped out at 88 mph in his first career regular-season game against the Angels. The right-hander lasted just four innings against Toronto last Sunday. He missed 45 games with bursitis in his right shoulder before coming back June 5.

Willits entered the game in the second as a defensive replacement for left fielder Garret Anderson, who re-aggravated his right hip while making a backhanded catch in the first.

With shortstop Rafael Furcal covering at second base, a hole was left for Kendrick, who followed with an RBI single to left center off Rudy Seanez that made it 3-0. Mike Napoli struck out to end the inning.

The Dodgers stranded nine runners, including three in the second when Schmidt grounded out to end the inning.

Notes: Angels 1B Casey Kotchman sustained a concussion in the seventh after being hit in the helmet on an intended pickoff throw at second by Dodgers C Russell Martin as he slid back to the bag on his belly. Kotchman walked off under his own power and went to a hospital for further testing. … Anderson, who came off the DL nine games ago, is now day-to-day. … Dodgers 1B Nomar Garciaparra was supposed to get the day off until he pinch hit in the fifth. The Dodgers rested 2B Jeff Kent. … Angels RF Vladimir Guerrero went 0-for-3, with an intentional walk and got hit by a pitch in the fifth.

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