ANAHEIM — A.J. Burnett didn't feel like talking after giving up eight runs for the third time in six starts. The Los Angeles Angels' linescore against him said enough.

Howie Kendrick drove in three runs, and the AL West leaders got homers from Torii Hunter and Garret Anderson to support Jered Weaver in an 8-2 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday night.

"Its fun to watch those guys do their work," Weaver said. "The runs made things a little bit easier."

The Simi Valley native recovered nicely from a history-making loss to the Dodgers last Saturday, allowing two runs and six hits in 713 innings while striking out six.

Weaver (8-8) took a four-hit shutout into the eighth before Joe Inglett followed a one-out leadoff double by Marco Scutaro with a triple under the glove of diving Gary Matthews Jr. in right field. Justin Speier replaced Weaver and gave up an RBI single to Alex Rios.

Weaver pitched six hitless innings against the Dodgers, allowing an unearned run on his own fielding error and a sacrifice fly in a 1-0 loss. The Dodgers went the entire game without a hit, making them the fifth team in modern major league history to win a game under those circumstances.

"It's starting to come around a little bit," Weaver said.

Burnett (8-8) tied a career high by allowing eight runs for the fifth time in 195 big league starts. Two of the runs against the him were unearned, the result of errors by second baseman Inglett in the second inning and Scutaro in the sixth.

The Halos grabbed a 2-0 advantage in the second when Hunter hit a first-pitch homer to right-center for his 10th of the campaign and Kendrick added an RBI double.

Prior to Kendrick's hit, Anderson singled and Matthews grounded to third — but Anderson was ruled safe on the attempted force play by umpire Angel Campos because Inglett came off second base a step early taking Scott Rolen's throw.

The Angels tacked on three more in the sixth. Matthews hit an RBI double after Vladimir Guerrero doubled to right field off the glove of Rios, and Hunter reached on Scutaro's fielding error. Kendrick followed Matthews' hit with a two-run single.

Maicer Izturis had an RBI single and Anderson hit a two-run homer in the seventh.