Hit Parade Continues for Angels : Baseball: A 13-2 rout of the Tigers extends their lead in the AL West to six games.

The here-we-go-round-again Angel offense put on a matinee performance Sunday for the folks in Anaheim Stadium, who looked bored by it all.

This run-scoring, the latest a 13-2 victory over Detroit, is becoming mundane, so how about a game where the winner hasn’t been decided by the third inning?

The Angels and Tigers went through the motions for more than two hours after California took an 8-0 lead in the third. For the 18,948 watching, the drama was reduced to waiting to take a swipe at a beach ball bouncing around the stands.

The Angels, leading the American League West by a season-high six games, aren’t the least bit bored, of course. They’re too busy enjoying the prolific offense.

They have scored at least 10 runs in five of the last eight games and all of those double-digit victories were blowouts. The narrowest margin was seven runs.

“Man, they’re going to have to bring some more dirt in here,” Chuck Finley said. “We’re starting to wear a rut in the infield. We’re scoring runs like a beer-league softball team, without the benefit of the keg.”

Sunday, everybody in the lineup with the exception of Tim Salmon scored and he had a single and a double and drove in two runs. Rex Hudler’s solo homer in the fourth marked the 12th game in a row that the Angels have hit a home run. Center fielder Jim Edmonds, who predicted during spring training that he would hit 15 or 20 homers, got No. 20 in the seventh inning, his third in two days. And Garret Anderson, who has 14 RBIs in seven games against Detroit, hit a two-run home run in the eighth.

Over that 12-game stretch, the Angels have 26 home runs.

Manager Marcel Lachemann keeps talking about contagious hitting, but Tiger Manager Sparky Anderson says this prolonged explosion is more than a roll.

“Any team that’s leading both leagues in scoring this late in July, that’s not momentum,” Anderson said. “They’re just beating up on people.”

Sparky should know. The Angels have outscored Detroit, 65-27, in the past 10 days.

Left-hander Mark Langston held the Tigers scoreless for 7 2/3 innings Sunday before giving up a walk and three singles with two outs in the eighth. The fans gave Langston a standing ovation when Lachemann pulled him in favor of Troy Percival.

“I’ve played a long time, but I’ve never seen anything like this in my life,” said Langston, who improved his record to 9-1. “I have never seen an offense turn it on like this night after night. And it’s not just Chili [Davis] and Timmy [Salmon] like it has been in the past, it’s everybody.”

The Angels scored twice in the first inning on four singles and a walk. They left the bases loaded, but didn’t have long to bemoan the missed opportunity, scoring six in the third.

Davis started it with his second of three walks, Tony Phillips and Greg Myers also walked, J.T. Snow and Gary DiSarcina singled and Anderson and Salmon had doubles.

Langston didn’t get to see all of the action, however. He was in the clubhouse running laps to keep sweating. And that’s only one of the drawbacks of the Angels’ scoring early and often.

“I pitched poorly with big leads early this year because I lost my concentration,” Langston said. “Today, I tried really hard to maintain my focus and push myself to make sure every pitch had a purpose.”

Still, it’s hard to bear down when your teammates are giddy with success.

“Yeah, this is really a blast,” Langston said. “I don’t think there’s a guy on this team who isn’t having a great time.”