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| Thursday, 24 October, 2002, 00:27 GMT 01:27 UK Ballwatch: San Francisco 4-3 Anaheim ![]() Scott Spiezio sparked the Angels in game three All the action from baseball's World Series as the Giants edge out the Angels in game four. Refresh for latest news. Giants 4-3 Angels (final) Ninth innings: To Robb Nen falls the task of closing out the game for the Giants in front of a supportive home crowd. He gives up a hit but then benefits from a soft double-play grounder to seal the win. San Francisco are now all-square with Anaheim after four games of the best-of-seven "Fall Classic". And Barry Bonds' World Series dreams are still very much alive. Eighth innings: The Anaheim batters are retired in order as the Angels offensive onslaught abates. The Giants take advantage of the respite, putting runners on base and converting a go-ahead run thanks to David Bell's RBI. How crucial it could prove if San Francisco go on to square the World Series. Seventh innings: PacBell Park is poised for a tense finale to game four of the World Series. Sixth innings: The Giants press hard but fail to send a runner to home plate and the score stays tied. Fifth innings: San Francisco finally give their fans something to shout about as in-form Aurelia drives in their first run of the night. Barry Bonds is walked for the third time and this time Santiago gets it right, levelling the match with a well-placed single. Fourth innings: Pitching dominates this scoreless innings as Giants fans start to get behind their team. A variety of boats, dinghys and surf-boards fill McCovey Cove - which surrounds one corner of PacBell Park - in the hope of catching a stray home-run ball. Third innings: The red-hot Troy Glaus hammers a home run to centre-field scoring two. The Angels third baseman now has seven post-season homers this year, tying the MLB record set by Barry Bonds on Tuesday. Rich Aurelia nearly homers in reply for the Giants, but his double puts men in scoring position before another Bonds walk loads the bases. For the second time on the night Santiago grounds into a double play. Second innings: It is the Angels turn to load the bases, and they convert with a sacrifice-fly from David Eckstein to score Benji Gil. The Giants have no answer, stranding another runner. First innings: The Angels batting machine gets off and running again with a hit from Garrett Anderson, but no-one steps up to bat him home. The Los Angeles-based team are on course for numerous post-season hitting records. San Francisco start brightly themselves, putting two men on base and then a third when Barry Bonds is walked intentionally. But, when out-of-form Benito Santiago hits into a double play, the innings ends scorless. Build-up: Actors Billy Crystal and Andy Garcia warm up the fans by counting down their 10 best baseball memories of all time. Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hit-streak, Ted Williams' .400 season and "Hammerin'" Hank Aaron's 715th home run figure prominently. But top honours go to recently-retired legend Cal Ripken Jr for the day he broke Lou Gehrig's consecutive games played streak. Turning to the business at hand, San Francisco's packed stadium is ready to get behind the Giants, who suffered a disappointing 10-4 loss to Anaheim on Tuesday to fall behind in the World Series. |
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