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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 ...
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.
In the 2002 World Series they met the Wild Card San Francisco Giants, paced by slugger Barry Bonds, in what ended up being the highest-scoring World Series of all time. San Francisco took Game 1 (4–3), but the Angels followed that up by winning Games 2 (11–10) and 3 (10–4). The Giants came back to win Games 4 (4–3) and 5 (16–4).
The 2002 season was the 120th in the history of the San Francisco Giants, the franchise's 45th season in San Francisco, and their third in Pacific Bell Park.The season ended with the Giants winning the National League pennant but losing to the Anaheim Angels in the World Series.
In the "Original 16" era (1901–1960), there were 8 teams in each league and teams in each league played each other 22 times a season. [1] With the second American League incarnation of the Washington Senators (now the Texas Rangers) and the Los Angeles Angels entering play as expansion teams in 1961, MLB increased the total number of games American League teams played to 162, which meant ...
Patrick Bailey put the Giants ahead with a two-run double when Randal Grichuk misplayed his drive to left, keying San Francisco's six-run rally in the ninth inning of an 8-3 victory that sent the ...
After leading the Buccaneers to a come-from-behind 16-13 victory, though, he dismissed that milestone the way he might a six-figure salary. “It’s all about the win, man,” Brady said, his ...
A comeback (or come-from-behind) is an occurrence of an athlete or sports team engaged in a competition overcoming a substantial disadvantage in points or position. It has been described as "the single greatest aspect of competition that most embodies the spirit of what makes sport extraordinary". [ 1 ]