John Lackey was at best only OK in his first nonquality start of his 10 this season.

And the Angels' bats were a little late in showing up to score three runs the final two innings of a 7-5 loss to Toronto Saturday that ended a three-game Angel Stadium win streak.

But it was the defense, with a season-high-tying four errors, while allowing the Blue Jays six stolen bases in six tries.

That gives opponents all 26 of their last 26 attempts and highlighted the most disturbing part of a loss that didn't hurt the Angels' 5.0-game lead in the AL West with Oakland losing 6-1 to the White Sox.

At least the Angels kept their offense on track, having scored 25 runs in their last four games now after scoring just two in the four games before that as Vlad Guerrero homered and doubled, drove in three runs, while Chone Figgins went three-for-four with Casey Kotchman and Howie Kendrick having a pair of hits each.

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