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OTHER SPORT STORIES - We have jocks and stands - just no fans - Unity and teamwork play key roles midway through season - With a new coach, Dolphins expect competitive season - Standings Underdog to top dog: Angels become a Disney classic Kirsten Clark Sports Editor Celebration ensues after the final out. Photo courtesy www.worldseries.com So is this your idea of a Disney classic? With the imminent sale of the currently Disney-corporation-owned Anaheim Angles, this World Series may mean a little something different. But if you had been watching, this was evident after Barry Bonds' home run in his first ever World Series at bat, to be quickly followed by the breakout of the Rally Monkey. Just to let all of you Angel fans know early on in this article, it of course will be obviously biased, since there is still a sore spot in my heart from the Angels keeping the M's out of the Series. So my heart was content at the end of game one, when the final Angel's pitch concluded their 4-3 loss to the San Francisco Giants. But as far as game two goes, it is a different story. With the Angels' Rally Monkey ready and rearing to go from the beginning of the second game, the Giants had their work cut out for them. One of the Angel's team leaders, Tim Salmon, who is known to teammates as "King Fish," took it upon himself in game two, to make sure this one was going home with them. With Salmon's four hits, two home runs and four RBIs, he was assured victory. ans they get are other athletes, and they are usually just waiting to use the gym. THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT THE WORLD SERIES? TEST YOURSELF! 1. In Game 1, the first three hits were? A) All outs. B) All Singles C) All Home runs 2. In Game 2 both pitchers left the game before the 3rd inning, this was the first time to happen since? A) 1903 B) 1957 C) 1994 3. In Game 3, how many Angels reached 2nd base before the 4th inning? A) 5 B) 0 C) 2 4. How many Home Runs did the SF Giants hit in the World Series? A) 18 B) 12 C) 4 Answers 1. C-All home runs, which has never happened in a World Series before. 2. B-1957, When the Braves' Bob Buhl and the Yankees' Bob Turley were yanked before the 3rd. 3. A-5, Which helped them to score 3 runs in the first 3 innings. 4. B-12, That tied the record for most home runs previously set by the 1956 NY Yanks. Now with the Series tied 1-1, we could all get back on the edge of our seats, waiting for the "halos" to go down. But when the Angels batted around for two consecutive innings in game three, they led 8-1 and just about had the game put away. When the game finally ended, the Angels were headed back home to Edison with a two games-to-one lead. Still licking their wounds from game four, the Giants were not about to let another slip away, putting them down by two games. With the ever-rising threat of Bonds' long ball, the Angels made strategic moves walking Bonds in both the first and third innings to load the bases. Yet both times they came away unscathed with no runs scored. By the fourth the Angels were leading three to nothing, but in the top of the fifth a costly mistake by third baseman Troy Glaus let the Giants tie it up. Finally in the bottom of the eighth ex-Mariner David Bell ripped a game winning RBI single off of Rodriguez to clinch game four. Without too many key moments in game five to talk about, I have to admit it was one of my favorites. The Giants got a chance for revenge for the beating they took in game three. With five runs in the first two innings, the Giants headed off the field with a 16-4 victory. Now as I sit here watching and writing during game six, I am hoping for another Giants victory for many reasons. The first and foremost, I would really like to be able to finish this article tonight, and to be frank I am pretty much sick of baseball for this season and have been since the threat of another strike. So I was more than thrilled to see Bonds hit his eighth World Series home run in the top of the sixth to take a 4-0 lead, not to mention setting a new series record for most home runs. But by the time the eighth inning had finished my hopes for an end to tonight's article were beginning to fade as the Angels were now in the lead. As the game would finish, the score unbelievably would read Angels 6, Giants 5 and we move on to an astonishing game seven. So I guess this series did just about have all the makings for a Disney classic. The underdog, Anaheim (who began the season a dismal 4 and 13) held off the powerhouse team the Giants. Although the Giants scored first in the second, the Angels followed up with one of their own, then three more in the third. Through the eighth, the Giants never even got a lead off man aboard. For the first time in the Angels' 42-year history the World Series was theirs, four games to three. © 2002 Shoreline Community College™