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Game 2 was a slugfest which the Angels won, 11–10, to even the series headed to San Francisco. In Game 3, the Angels blew out the Giants to go up 2–1 in the series as Ramón Ortiz got the best of Liván Hernández , while the Giants narrowly took Game 4 by one run to even the series.
The 2002 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB)'s 2002 season.The 98th edition of the World Series, [1] it was a best-of-seven playoff between the American League (AL) champion Anaheim Angels and the National League (NL) champion San Francisco Giants; the Angels defeated the Giants, four games to three, to win their first, and, to date, only World Series ...
December 16, 2001: Tsuyoshi Shinjo was traded by the New York Mets with Desi Relaford to the San Francisco Giants for Shawn Estes. [2] December 18, 2001: Jason Schmidt was signed as a free agent with the San Francisco Giants. [3] January 25, 2002: David Bell was traded by the Seattle Mariners to the San Francisco Giants for Desi Relaford and ...
On August 3, the Angels were 56–33 (.629), 11 games ahead of the second place Texas Rangers, [5] and 13 ahead of the third-place Mariners, at 43–46 (.483). [6] [7] By the end of the month, the Angels (67–50 (.573)) were on a six-game losing streak and their lead was trimmed to 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 games over both Texas and Seattle.
The 2002 Anaheim Angels season was the franchise's 42nd, and it ended with the team's first American League pennant and World Series championship.. The Angels finished the regular season with a record of 99–63, 4 games behind the Oakland Athletics in the American League West standings, but qualified for the franchise's first ever wild card playoff berth to return to the postseason for the ...
After rare storms drenched Angel Stadium, the Angels eventually took the field and scored a 7-3 win over the Oakland Athletics to end the season.
Zach Neto had a tiebreaking two-run double in the seventh inning, and the Los Angeles Angels won their first home series of the season with a 4-2 victory over the San Diego Padres on Tuesday night.
The Anaheim Angels would go on to win the 2002 World Series against the San Francisco Giants. The Minnesota Twins , despite having lost the American League Championship Series, would go on to win the American League Central for two more consecutive years, although they would lose in the American League Division Series both years to the New York ...