The formula seems awfully simple for the Angels these days.

Score first. Get a timely hit -- or three, and a quality start, in this case, from Jon Garland.

Then turn the game over to Frankie Rodriguez, who obliged by striking out the Red Sox side in the ninth.

All that the Angels (60-38) did again Sunday in coming from ahead, and behind, to finish off a three-game sweep of the Boston Red Sox with a 5-3 win.

Eighth-inning doubles from Juan Rivera, Howie Kendrick and Casey Kotchman book-ended second-inning home runs from Vlad Guerrero and Torii Hunter to guarantee the Angels, who have won five of six against the Sox this season, their first season series win against Boston since 2001.

It was also the Angels first three-game sweep in Anaheim of the Red Sox since April of 1998.

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