Anaheim, Calif. ? Jon Garland and Paul Konerko left no room for debate – not for umpires, not for fans.

Garland pitched a four-hitter that silenced the Angels’ bats, Konerko hit a two-run homer that quieted their fans, and the Chicago White Sox beat Los Angeles, 5-2, Friday night to take a 2-1 lead in the AL championship series.

“Garland – we just hopped on his back tonight and just rode him,” Konerko said.

Garland pitched Chicago’s second straight complete game, following Mark Buehrle’s five-hitter in Game 2. It was the first consecutive complete games in the ALCS since the Angels’ Tommy John and Bruce Kison in 1982.

Los Angeles is hitting .174 in the three games, totaling six runs and 16 hits – only five for extra bases. Vladimir Guerrero, Garret Anderson and Bengie Molina are a combined 3-for-33.

“They’re pitching well, that’s for sure,” the Angels’ Darin Erstad said. “We’re just going to keep fighting. That’s what we do. We grind it out.”

There weren’t any discussions of dubious decisions by the umpires, unlike Wednesday night in Chicago, when umpire Doug Eddings set off debate with a controversial call in the ninth that led to the winning run by the White Sox.

Chicago's Paul Konerko, left, accepts congratulations from teammates Jermaine Dye, center, and Carl Everett after Konerko hit a two-run home run in the first inning. The White Sox defeated the Angels, 5-2, Friday night in Anaheim, Calif.

Not that the umpires had a quiet night.

The sellout crowd of 44,725 at Angel Stadium repeatedly booed the umpires and Chicago’s A.J. Pierzynski, who ran to first with two outs in the ninth Wednesday night after he swung and missed strike three, a pitch Eddings ruled hit the dirt.

Before Friday’s game, Scioscia insisted there wouldn’t be any carry-over.

“Our guys have moved on. I feel the same way,” he said.

But the White Sox found new punch against John Lackey, scoring as many runs in the first three innings as they did in the first two games.

Pitching against a team he nearly was traded to, Garland allowed three runners in the first five innings and just five overall. Erstad had the first hard-hit ball, a second-inning, two-out double, but was thrown out trying for third.

Garland didn’t give up any runs until the sixth, when Orlando Cabrera hit a two-run homer down the left-field line. Garland then retired his final 10 batters.

“Last year, we took a lot of heat in Chicago,” White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen said. “Before I got the job, Jon never had the opportunity to go more than six, seven innings. They always pulled him out.”

Garland, from nearby Valencia, was pitching in front of friends and family. He threw 118 pitches in what he call one of the best games of his career.

“It was pretty exciting,” he said. “It’s something I’ll remember.”

Lackey didn’t have his sharp breaking pitches, losing for the first time since Aug. 25 and only the second time since the All-Star break. He allowed five runs and eight hits in five innings.

“I just hung a couple of breaking balls, didn’t get them down to where they needed to be,” Lackey said. “I just hope to get another start.”

Chicago needed just 12 pitches to take a 3-0 lead.

Scott Podsednik singled on an 0-2 pitch leading off, Tadahito Iguchi sacrificed and Dye doubled to right-center to put the White Sox ahead. Lackey, who allowed just 13 homers during the regular season, then made a mistake on a 3-2 curveball to Konerko, who was just 4-for-20 in the postseason coming in. Molina set his target low and outside, the pitch went high and inside.

“I was just trying to resist the urge to think that he was going to walk me,” Konerko said.

Carl Everett’s RBI single in the third made it 4-0, and Konerko singled in a run in the fifth.

Ervin Santana, the 22-year-old rookie who won the first-round clincher against the New York Yankees, will try to tie the series for the Angels on Saturday when he pitches against Freddy Garcia.

“Worried about not coming back? No, it’s early,” Cabrera said. “There’s a lot of series left, a lot of games.”