The 2-1 win clinched the National League Championship Series for the Giants by four games to one.

Kenny Lofton's line drive single with two outs in the bottom of the ninth sent David Bell home for the winning score.

The Giants will now travel to Anaheim on Saturday for the first game of the World Series.

It will be the first time that the World Series has been played between wild card teams.

Baseball's most famous player, Barry Bonds, will now have the chance to play for its top honour.

Bonds played his part by hitting a tying sacrifice fly in the eighth off a determined Matt Morris.

In the ninth, Morris retired the first two batters before David Bell and Shawon Dunston singled.

At that point, Steve Kline relieved and Lofton pulled the first pitch into right field to send Bell home.

"We played great," Bonds said. "We've got a tough series ahead of us.

"The Angels have been playing great in the clutch. It's going to be down to the wire with them.

"We've got some gutsy guys out here, just like the Angels.

"Who would've thought two wild-card teams would make it? That's just amazing."

San Francisco last reached the World Series in 1989, losing in four games to the Oakland Athletics.