Toronto first baseman Lyle Overbay follows through for the first of two home runs in Friday's game. (Mark J. Terrill/Associated Press)

The hit parade continued for the suddenly potent Toronto Blue Jays on Friday night in a 10-4 win over the Los Angeles Angels.

Lyle Overbay led the way with two home runs and three runs batted in. After a month and a half struggling to find timely hitting, Toronto has amassed 33 hits in its last two games and outscored foes 52-15 in the last nine.

Starter Dustin McGowan (4-4) didn't always have his best stuff but battled hard to get his first win in four career decisions against the Angels. McGowan went six innings, allowing three earned runs on seven hits. He struck out six and walked one.

With Friday's result, all of Toronto's starters are .500 or better. Shawn Marcum (5-3) will get the start for the Blue Jays on Saturday against the Angels.

For the second straight game, all in the batting order save one recorded at least one hit. Shortstop David Eckstein was the exception on Friday.

Overbay, Scott Rolen and Brad Wilkerson all went 3-for-5 at the plate. Rolen and Wilkerson each drove in two runs. Alex Rios rebounded from an 0-for-6 Thursday with two hits and two runs.

The Blue Jays have won 14 of their last 18 contests. The bad news for Toronto (31-26) is that it made no headway in the American League East on the night, with leaders Tampa Bay and Boston also winning.

Angels starter Jared Weaver (4-6) had been 2-0 against the Blue Jays but was banged around on this occasion. Weaver surrendered 10 hits and six runs, all of them earned.

Overbay drilled a Weaver offering into the right-field seats to lead off the second. It was the first baseman's fourth home run of the season.

The Angels replied in their half of the inning as Garet Anderson led off with a single and Torri Hunter hit a squibbler down the first base line for a double. With one out, Wilkerson took Howie Kendrick's fly ball and made a game effort to throw Anderson out at home plate, but was just a tad late.

Close call for Rolen

With Toronto up in the third, Rolen smacked an 0-2 pitch off the right-field wall to score Rios, who had singled. Rolen slid into third with a triple.

Rolen narrowly missed being out from a pick-off attempt by Los Angeles catcher Mike Napoli and it proved important as Matt Stairs hit a blooper to centre to make the score 3-1.

The Jays' third baseman is happy to get runs however they come.

"Anytime you can swing the bats well and get some nice production, no matter who's on the mound, that's the idea," Rolen said. "We hit a tough stretch early in the season and weren't scoring runs. But there's a lot of season left."

McGowan's toughest inning may have been the third. He issued a walk to Maicer Izturis and then uncorked a wild throw to first after a bunt by Gary Matthews. Izturis scored, but Matthews got greedy and tried to advance all the way to third, and was easily tagged out there.

The Angels tied the game again in the fourth, but in the next inning the "new look" Jays were on full display, scoring four runs on five singles and some smart baserunning.

Marco Scutaro and Rios started things off by drilling base hits to right. Scutaro then took off on contact with Rolen at the plate, scoring on the third baseman's single to left.

The three consecutive hits hastened Weaver's departure and he was replaced by Darren Oliver. With one out, Overbay's single to left brought Rios across for a 5-3 lead. Rolen scored on a Rod Barajas grounder, and Wilkerson sprayed a hit to drive in Overbay.

With the score 7-4 in the seventh, Overbay hit his second long ball of the game. Wilkerson got on board with a bunt single to lead off the top of the eighth and was cashed in on Scutaro's fifth double of the season.

Scutaro played second on Friday in place of Aaron Hill, who took a hard knock colliding with Eckstein for a pop-up during Thursday's game in Oakland.

Los Angeles reliever Chris Bootcheck struggled in the ninth and wasn't helped by Napoli. Stairs appeared dead to rights heading for home plate, but the catcher bobbled Hunter's throw from centre field.

A quartet of Toronto relievers combined for three innings of scoreless relief. Jason Frasor, Brian Tallet and Shawn Camp each struck out one.

Veteran Armando Benitez, on the comeback trail this season, impressed most of all by striking out the side in the eighth.

The clubs played last week in Toronto, with the Angels taking two of three. Since hitting two home runs in a Los Angeles win, slugger Vladimir Guerrero is 0-for-8 with four strikeouts against the Blue Jays.

John Lackey is scheduled to pitch for Los Angeles on Saturday. As with last week's series, Toronto will avoid facing Angels starter Joe Saunders, who leads his club with eight wins.

Los Angeles (32-24) has lost two in a row but retained its lead in the AL West with Oakland losing.