ANAHEIM, Calif. — Joe Saunders bounced back from his lone loss of the year and Vladimir Guerrero drove in two runs without a hit to help the Los Angeles Angels beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 4-2 Friday night.

Joe Torre, who had a losing record against the Angels during his tenure as manager of the New York Yankees, lost again in his first matchup with them as Dodgers manager.

The Angels went 61-55 against New York during Torre’s reign from 1996-2007, the only AL team with a winning record against the Yankees in that span, and eliminated them from the playoffs in 2002 and 2005.

Saunders (7-1) held the Dodgers to two runs — on Andre Ethier’s two-run homer in the seventh — in 713 innings. The left-hander gave up five hits, walked two and had one strikeout.

He was coming off an outing in which he got no offensive support, a 2-0 defeat at Tampa Bay when he allowed just one run and four hits in six innings.

Francisco Rodriguez pitched a perfect ninth for his major league-leading 17th save in 18 chances.

The Dodgers’ Hiroki Kuroda (1-3) allowed four runs, three earned, on seven hits and two walks in 613 innings. He struck out five.

After Ethier hit his fourth homer of the season to trim the deficit to 3-2 in the seventh, the Angels answered with a run in the bottom half.

Guerrero, who provided the Angels’ second run of the game with a sacrifice fly in the fifth, drove in their fourth with a grounder to third. Maicer Izturis, who had walked and advanced to third on two wild pitches by Kuroda, slid into the plate safely when third baseman Russell Martin fielded Guerrero’s grounder and bounced his throw to the plate.

The play was ruled a fielder’s choice, no error involved, and Guerrero was credited with the RBI.

The Angels took a 3-0 lead with a pair of runs in the fifth, on Guerrero’s sacrifice fly and Garret Anderson’s RBI single.

The Angels scored their first run on a fluke play in the fourth inning, starting after Casey Kotchman hit a ground-rule double down the left-field line with two outs. Kuroda then struck out Erick Aybar, but catcher Gary Bennett couldn’t cleanly handle the third strike that was in the dirt, and his throw to first sailed over first baseman James Loney’s head for an error.

Kotchman scored on the play, and Aybar wound up on third base.

A couple of fine fielding plays by the Dodgers kept the Angels from opening a bigger lead.

In other games on Friday: INTERLEAGUE

Phillies 10

Blue Jays 3

PHILADELPHIA — Jayson Werth homered in his first three at-bats and tied a Philadelphia record with eight RBIs in a win over Toronto. The homers and eight RBIs were career highs for Werth. He became the 18th Phillies player to record three homers in a game.

Royals 7

Marlins 6

MIAMI — Brett Tomko pitched six innings for his first victory in nearly six weeks, and two unearned runs helped Kansas City extend its winning streak to five games. Tomko (2-4) allowed five hits and two runs to win for the first time since April 6.

Reds 4

Indians 3

CINCINNATI — Adam Dunn homered and drew a tiebreaking walk with the bases loaded in the eighth inning, sending Cincinnati to its season-high fourth straight win. The Reds got homers from Brandon Phillips and Dunn, then won it after Joey Votto’s double, a pair of walks from Jensen Lewis (0-2), and the full-count walk to Dunn.

Orioles 5

Nationals 3

BALTIMORE — Luke Scott homered, Melvin Mora hit a tiebreaking double in the fifth inning and the Orioles won for the sixth time in seven games. Left-hander Garrett Olson (3-0) struggled through five innings but is undefeated in four starts since being recalled from Triple-A Norfolk. He allowed three runs and nine hits.

Rays 3

Cardinals 1

ST. LOUIS — Andy Sonnanstine carried a shutout into the eighth inning and added two singles to a 12-hit outburst that helped the streaking Rays win again.Akinori Iwamura had three hits and an RBI for the AL East leaders, who are eight games above .500 for the first time in franchise history.

Braves 3

Athletics 2

ATLANTA — Mark Kotsay knocked in the go-ahead run in the eighth inning with a two-out RBI double, and Atlanta won its eighth straight at home. The loss was a season-high fourth in a row for the A’s, who have dropped six of seven on their current nine-game road trip.

Rangers 16

Astros 8

ARLINGTON, Texas — Josh Hamilton went five for five with two homers and five RBIs, and Ian Kinsler scored the go-ahead run in the seventh inning. Hamilton’s second homer, a three-run shot, gave Texas an 8-2 lead in the fourth.

Twins 4

Rockies 2

DENVER — Nick Blackburn pitched seven strong innings and Delmon Young doubled twice and scored two runs before Joe Nathan remained perfect in 13 save opportunities. Blackburn (4-2) struck out five without a walk to help the Twins end a three-game skid.

Diamondbacks 4

Tigers 3

PHOENIX — Eric Byrnes broke out of a monthlong slump with a homer and two RBIs, Dan Haren pitched seven innings and Arizona rallied past slumping Detroit. Haren (5-2) scattered six hits and allowed three runs for the Diamondbacks, who came back from a 3-1 deficit with three runs in the seventh en route to their fourth straight victory.

White Sox 2

Giants 0

SAN FRANCISCO — Alexei Ramirez hit his first major league homer, a two-run shot in the seventh inning that sent Chicago over San Francisco. San Francisco had a baserunner aboard in every inning against White Sox starter Gavin Floyd (4-2), who withstood each threat.

Padres 6

Mariners 4

SEATTLE — Brian Giles had his third four-hit game of the season, Tadahito Iguchi had a homer among his three hits and San Diego opened interleague play with a win over Seattle. San Diego rebounded from being shutout for the fourth time this season on Thursday against the Cubs, by jumping on Seattle starter Miguel Batista for three runs in the first and another in the second on Iguchi’s solo homer. NATIONAL LEAGUE

Cubs 7

Pirates 4

CHICAGO — Alfonso Soriano homered in his first two at-bats, Geovany Soto and Mark DeRosa went deep and the surging Cubs won for the seventh time in eight games. Soriano connected on the first pitch from Tom Gorzelanny for his third leadoff home run in four games.