It’s Battery Park, West

A trio of New York Yankees pitchers probably knew how Reggie Willits felt Friday night.

The Angels’ outfielder was knocked out in the seventh inning because of a concussion suffered in a nasty home-plate collision with reliever Brian Bruney, the second concussion of the week for Willits.

But it was Yankees starter Ian Kennedy and relievers Darrell Rasner and Bruney who must have felt a little woozy after the pounding the Angels inflicted on them, racking up 17 hits, six for extra bases, in a convincing 10-5 victory at Angel Stadium.

Torii Hunter had four hits, including a homer, and four runs batted in, and Howie Kendrick continued his personal assault on the Yankees, going four for five to improve his career average against New York to .507 (36 for 71).

In improving to a major league-best 72-43 and boosting their division lead to 13 games, the Angels exacted a measure of revenge for Sunday’s 14-9 loss in Yankee Stadium, when they blew a 5-0 lead and gave up 10 unearned runs in the last two innings.

“Those guys never stop -- they have a deep lineup and can put up runs in a hurry, like they showed in New York,” Angels Manager Mike Scioscia said of the Yankees.

“You have to pitch well and you have to swing the bats. You have to score and keep going.”

Hunter’s big night actually started with a defensive gem, the center fielder getting a great jump on Derek Jeter’s first-inning drive and sprinting to the wall to make the catch in the first inning.

After singles by Erick Aybar and Vladimir Guerrero in the bottom of the first, Hunter drove a two-run double to deep left-center, where Johnny Damon crashed so hard into the wall he knocked a door in the fence open -- yes, you could say, the left fielder let the door hit him on the way out.

Hunter was in the middle of a three-run rally in the third, following Mark Teixeira’s leadoff double and Guerrero’s RBI single with an infield single. Garret Anderson and Kendrick followed with RBI singles for a 5-3 lead.

Hunter followed Guerrero’s fourth-inning double with an RBI single, and he sparked a four-run rally in the seventh with a leadoff homer, his 19th of the season, to left-center, off Rasner.

“Jeter was pretty upset with me all day,” said Hunter, who is hitting .388 in his last 18 games and has seven homers and 22 RBIs in his last 14 games. “I was on second base, and he said, ‘I don’t want to talk to you right now.’ ”

During the seventh, which included Jeff Mathis’ RBI double and Teixeira’s RBI single, Willits scored with an aggressive dash home on a wild pitch that bounced only about 12 feet away from catcher Jose Molina.

Bruney, who was covering home, barreled into Willits on the play, knocking Willits in the left side of the head, the same spot Willits was hit in an outfield collision with Gary Matthews Jr. on Sunday in New York.

“I just feel woozy,” Willits said. “I don’t think I got hit that hard; he just hit me in the right spot.”

Unlike last Sunday’s bullpen meltdown, relievers Jose Arredondo and Scot Shields combined to blank the Yankees over the final three innings, preserving the win for Jered Weaver, who out-pitched Kennedy -- again -- to improve to 10-9.

Kennedy, a former Westminster La Quinta High star, didn’t make it out of the third inning, getting rocked for five runs and nine hits in two innings.

Weaver lasted six innings, giving up for five runs and seven hits, including Alex Rodriguez’s solo home run over both bullpens in left field in the second and Xavier Nady’s laser of a solo shot over the short left-field wall in the sixth.

Weaver walked Jason Giambi with the bases loaded to force in a run in the third and gave up a second run on Nady’s dribbler that hit the third-base bag for a single.

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mike.digiovanna@latimes.com

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