SAN FRANCISCO -- All the pressure was on the Giants in Game 4. Now, with the World Series tied at two games apiece, the pressure has shifted to the Angels for Game 5 on Wednesday night.

The Angels may not sense a heavier burden, but I don't think they can count on Kevin Appier to come up big for them in Game 6 back in Anaheim. That places more heat on the Angels to win Game 5 and go back home with a 3-2 series lead.

The players tend to look at each day as a new day and don't tend to look at the repercussions of games as much as the media does. Instead, they think of the series as a whole and know they have to be the first team to four wins. Both teams have been down before. The Giants were down 2-1 to Atlanta before coming back and winning the next two games to take the series. The Angels have been down in each series 1-0.

Each game is a mini-drama within itself. In Game 4, the Giants had a tremendous gut check. After the Angels lead 3-0, you could feel the air leave Pac Bell Park when the Giants put runners on first and third in the first inning and on second and third in the third inning and get nothing out of it. At that point I thought it would take a miracle for the Giants to win.

But the Giants got a few breaks in their three-run fifth inning on Kirk Rueter's infield hit and on Kenny Lofton's bunt that ran foul before kicking back fair. They then got a great piece of hitting from Rich Aurilia, who singled in the Giants' first run.

I thought the Giants got away with two things in the ballgame. My first inclination is that Barry Bonds had a chance to go to from first to third on Benito Santiago's game-tying single in the fifth. That may have cost the Giants a run. And in the eighth inning, I thought Dusty Baker should have put in Ramon Martinez to bunt instead of Reggie Sanders. But after Scott Spiezio made a great catch on Sanders' bunt attempt, David Bell got them off the hook with his go-ahead single.

With the teams' No. 1 pitchers -- Jason Schmidt and Jarrod Washburn -- back on the mound for Game 5, here are my keys for each team Wednesday (other than the sun coming to warm up the stadium):

Anaheim Angels
Breaking stuff to Barry: Throughout the season, Washburn has been charted throwing fastballs 78 percent of the time. But he has probably learned that the Angels have had better success against Bonds on breaking pitches. If Washburn goes after Bonds, he will have to mix in a lot more sliders than in the past. Bonds has shown them he can hit a fastball.

San Francisco Giants
Stay ahead: If Schmidt has been walking, the Giants still aren't doing is getting ahead in the count. Kirk Rueter was 7-for-17 with first-pitch strike through the first three innings, and he was hanging on by a thread. But from the third inning on, the Giants faced the minimum number of hitters because they turned three double plays and Rueter, Felix Rodriguez, Tim Worrell and Robb Nen combined to throw 12 out of 18 first-pitch strikes. Also, because Rueter holds runners well, the Angels never started any runners and got out of their game. Schmidt keep the Angels from playing their game, and it starts with getting ahead in the count.

Overall key
Table-setting: After being nearly unstoppable, David Eckstein and Darin Erstad were 0-for-7 in Game 4, with Erstad ending a 12-game hitting streak. Meanwhile, Kenny Lofton and Aurilia went 6-for-8 after going 4-for-26 through the first three games. The table-setters are an integral part of each team's offense and will be counted on again in Game 5 to help generate runs.

One run has decided three of the four games, and I would expect another close game Wednesday. There hasn't been an extra-inning game in the postseason, but Game 5 could be the one.

Dave Campbell, who was an infielder for eight seasons in the major leagues (1967-74), is an analyst for Baseball Tonight and ESPN Radio.