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(Sports Network) - Texas Rangers starter Kevin Millwood has gone the distance for his ballclub in consecutive starts, and will try for a third straight solid outing when he takes the ball today in the finale of a four-game series against the LA Angels of Anaheim.

Millwood was 0-3 in four starts before tossing a complete-game gem versus Detroit on August 20 in Arlington. He allowed one run and six hits in the 9-1 victory to snap the winless funk. Millwood then took the hill six days later at Kansas City and yielded just a run and nine hits in a 2-1 victory for his third complete game of the season and 17th of his career.

The last Rangers pitcher to throw three straight complete-game victories was Kenny Rogers back in 1994.

Millwood, a right-hander, will take on the Angels for the third time in 2008 and is 0-1 in two starts. Millwood owns a 2-3 mark and a 3.72 earned run average through nine career appearances against Anaheim.

Millwood and the Rangers will try to avoid a four-game sweep this afternoon. In Saturday's 4-3 setback in the third test of this series, Scott Feldman absorbed the loss after surrendering all four runs on eight hits and a walk in six innings of work. Milton Bradley and Hank Blalock each added a pair of hits, while Gerald Laird drove in two runs in defeat.

Rangers All-Star outfielder Josh Hamilton left the game with pain due to the root canal work he had done earlier this week and was replaced in the lineup by Brandon Boggs. Hamilton could miss today's game as well, and leads the majors with 116 RBI.

Texas is 3-3 on a seven-game road trip and 33-38 away from Arlington this season.

The American League West-leading LA Angels of Anaheim pushed their division advantage to 18 games over Texas and trimmed its magic number to nine. The Angels are in hot pursuit of winning the AL West for the fourth time in five years after Saturday's 4-3 triumph.

Torii Hunter finished 2-for-4 and drove in the tying run on a groundout, while Juan Rivera plated Vladimir Guerrero on a sacrifice fly for the go-ahead run in the sixth inning for Anaheim, which is one-half game behind Tampa Bay in the race for the AL's best record and home-field advantage in the first two rounds of the playoffs.

Starter Jered Weaver gave up three runs on five hits and two walks in five- plus innings, and struck out six batters in the no-decision. Jose Arredondo picked up the win after tossing two scoreless relief innings before Francisco Rodriguez registered his 53rd save with a perfect ninth.

Rodriguez pulled within four saves of the major league record established by Bobby Thigpen of the Chicago White Sox in 1990.

Toeing the rubber for the Angels today will be John Lackey. Lackey, a 19-game winner from a year ago, is 5-0 through his last nine starts and previously pitched on August 26 versus Oakland, recording a complete-game effort after allowing just a run and four hits in nine innings.

Lackey, who is 5-1 in 10 home starts this season, has pitched the Angels to a 7-2 mark over his past nine starts. He is 9-8 with a 5.39 earned run average in 24 career starts against the Rangers.

The veteran right-hander faced Texas on July 10 this season in a 11-10 win and luckily did not factor in the outcome. Lackey was rocked for six runs and 15 hits in 5 2/3 innings of work.

The Angels have won eight of their 12 matchups with the Rangers this season.