The Los Angeles Sparks looked fatigued and sluggish to start their latest game, their third in four nights to close last week.

They finished with a third consecutive win.

The Sparks will try to make it four in a row on Wednesday when the Western Conference leaders host the Chicago Sky.

Los Angeles (7-2) opened its packed slate last Wednesday with a home win over defending Eastern Conference champion Detroit, and had to play five extra minutes on Friday to knock off league-best Connecticut 98-93 in overtime.

The Sparks headed north to Sacramento immediately after that win for a game with the Monarchs on Saturday, and that jet lag was evident from the start at Arco Arena.

They fell behind 22-8 after one quarter and were down 17 with a minute remaining in the first half. But Los Angeles ended the third on a 12-0 run to take a three-point lead, and held on to win 74-66.

"Sometimes you are tired and it can be a mental thing, but once we're in the game, we're definitely going to eventually find our rhythm," said guard DeLisha Milton-Jones, who had 13 points and six assists. "We found it after sleepwalking in the first half."

Milton-Jones (14.9 points per game) has given the Sparks a legitimate third scorer behind forwards Lisa Leslie (17.2 ppg) and Candace Parker (16.7), who also rank 1-2 in the league in rebounding (10.1, 10.0 rpg).

Los Angeles got 25 points from its bench on Saturday, providing a big lift for the team's big three, which had logged heavy minutes over that four-day span.

"Our bench was tremendous, especially in that third quarter," Milton-Jones said. "We're able to make substitutions and not have any letdown. We're a very deep team."

Milton-Jones was the star when the Sparks met the Sky (3-5) in the first meeting this season, scoring eight of her 24 points in overtime of an 81-77 win at Chicago on June 3.

Parker, the league's No. 1 draft pick who grew up in nearby Naperville, had 12 points and seven rebounds.

That was the first WNBA meeting between Parker and this year's No. 2 overall pick, center Sylvia Fowles. But Fowles played just 19 minutes before spraining her knee, and hasn't played since.

The former LSU star could miss another month.

In her absence, Candice Dupree and Jia Perkins have stepped up. Each averaged 17.5 points in a pair of blowout wins over expansion Atlanta earlier this month to get the Sky within one win of .500.

Chicago has only played one game in 10 days since that home-and-home set. Dupree and Perkins combined for 28 points Friday against Washington, but they didn't get much help in a 64-57 loss. The Sky shot 38 percent (20-of-52) and made only 16-of-29 from the foul line.

"It's one thing if one person is missing all their free throws, but for the entire team to miss is killing us," said Dupree, who was 1-for-4.

The Sky are 13th of 14 teams in free-throw shooting at 68.4 percent.