Bond's homer can't save Giants

SAN FRANCISCO -- Once again, Barry Bonds hit a long home run and the San Francisco Giants came up short.\nBonds set a pair of records with a 437-foot shot to center field Tuesday night, but the Giants lost 10-4 to the Anaheim Angels and fell behind 2-1 in the World Series.\nBonds, putting his past postseason failures even further behind him, hit his record seventh homer this October and also became the first player to go deep in his first three World Series games.\nBut like Bonds' solo shot with two outs in the ninth inning off Troy Percival in an 11-10 loss in Game 2 on Sunday night, the Giants' pitchers created too big a deficit for San Francisco to overcome.\nWith the Giants trailing 8-2 and a runner on in the fifth inning, Bonds drove a 1-1 pitch from Ramon Ortiz over the center-field fence to make it a four-run game.\nBonds admired the shot and walked the first few steps to first base before jogging around the bases with another home run. The only other player to homer in the first three games of a World Series was Hank Bauer of the New York Yankees in 1958.\nBonds homered in his first Series at-bat, connecting off Jarrod Washburn in a 4-3 win in Game 1.\nBonds, who set a record with 73 home runs in 2001, had been a postseason dud until this year. He had lost all five series his teams had played in and his own performance was a big reason why.\nHe came into this year hitting only .196 with one home run and six RBIs in 97 postseason at-bats.\nBut he broke out of that slump with three homers in the division series against Atlanta, one in the NLCS against St. Louis and three in the World Series to break a tie with six others for the most homers in a single postseason.\nBob Robertson (1971), Lenny Dykstra (1993), Ken Griffey Jr. (1995), Bernie Williams (1996), Jim Thome (Cleveland), and Anaheim's Troy Glaus (2002) all hit six homers in one postseason.\nWhen Bonds really could have done damage in Game 3, the Angels predictably pitched around him.\nWith runners on first and third in the first inning of a scoreless game, Ortiz intentionally walked Bonds as Angels manager Mike Scioscia clearly didn't want the pitcher who allowed the most homers this season to pitch to the game's most feared slugger.\nThe fans booed at the Angels refusal to pitch to Bonds as the scoreboard played the chicken dance.\nIt was the seventh time Bonds was intentionally walked in the postseason after setting a record with 68 in the regular season.\nBy the time Bonds came up again, the Giants were trailing 4-1. This time, Ortiz challenged him with a runner on first base and one out. Bonds looked at a called strike before swinging through two more to strike out for just the fifth time this postseason.\nThe Angels didn't challenge Bonds again after the homer, walking him on four pitches with two outs in the seventh inning. That was Bonds' 20th walk in the postseason, tying the record set by Gary Sheffield in 1997.