Kansas City, MO -- (Sports Network) - David DeJesus and Alex Gordon homered and Zack Greinke tossed seven solid innings, as the Kansas City Royals avoided a sweep with a 9-4 win over the LA Angels of Anaheim at Kauffman Stadium.

Greinke (4-1) gave up three runs on five hits and struck out eight for the Royals, who have won three of their last five contests.

"That's not normal," said Greinke on the run support, "but I feel like we should put consistent runs on and our pitching should keep it consistently sort of down."

Mark Grudzielanek and Jose Guillen each had three hits and scored twice. DeJesus belted a three-run homer, while Gordon hit a two-run shot. John Buck went 2-for-3 with a run scored and an RBI.

Jered Weaver (2-5) was roughed up for eight runs on 10 hits in 3 1/3 innings for the Angels, who saw their season-high four-game winning streak come to an abrupt end.

"It's been one of those years so far," Weaver said. "I set the bar too high, I guess. Now everybody wants me to go 6-0 or 9-0 again. It's one of those things that I said when I first came up. I'm going to pitch my game up until people start figuring me out and people are starting to figure me out."

Mike Napoli was 3-for-4 with two RBI and a run scored, while Garret Anderson homered and tripled.

The Angels grabbed a 1-0 edge in the top of the first, as Gary Matthews Jr. drew a leadoff walk, moved to second when Erick Aybar grounded out and came home on a bloop single by Vladimir Guerrero that glanced off the glove of a diving Grudzielanek.

Kansas City even the score in the next frame on an RBI double by Billy Butler and jumped on Weaver for four runs in the bottom of the second. With runners on the corners and one out, Tony Pena Jr. reached out and punched a 1-2 changeup into left field to score Guillen, who led off with a double. DeJesus then smashed his third home run of the season over the wall in right.

The home team added another run in the third on Buck's sacrifice fly.

Greinke worked out of a jam in the fourth. Anderson hit a line drive to right past a sliding Mark Teahen for a leadoff triple, but the 24-year-old hurler induced a groundout from Torii Hunter and fanned Napoli and Robb Quinlan to end the threat.

Kansas City tacked on three more runs in the bottom half. Gordon followed a one-out single by Grudzielanek with his fourth home run of the season. Weaver's night was done as Chris Bootcheck entered from the bullpen. Bootcheck got Butler to pop out, but Teahen, Guillen and Ross Gload notched three consecutive singles to score another run.

Napoli clubbed a two-run homer in the seventh and Anderson added a solo shot in the ninth to round out the offense.

Game Notes

The nine runs and 14 hits tied season-highs for the Royals...LA won the season series, 3-2...The Royals have won just four of their last 13 games at home...LA is 17-5 in its last 22 games at Kauffman Stadium...Anderson collected eight RBI in the series...Kansas City left seven men on base, while the Angels stranded five...Attendance was 11,084.