ANAHEIM, Calif. -- It might be an inning for the ages, at-bats that fans and players will recall for years.

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If the Angels go on to win the World Series, their eighth inning against the San Francisco Giants on Saturday night will be remembered in the same vein as Mookie Wilson's grounder through Bill Buckner's legs in 1986, Don Denkinger's blown call in 1985 and Carlton Fisk's homer in 1975.

All were great Game 6s that showed baseball at its very best.

After Scott Spiezio's three-run homer off Felix Rodriguez in the seventh inning cut the Angels' deficit to 5-3, an 11-pitch sequence an inning later turned the World Series around and forced everyone to come back Sunday night.

Troy Glaus capped the 6-5 comeback victory with a two-run double off Robb Nen in the eighth. The drive reached the wall in left-center and Barry Bonds bobbled the ball for the second time in the inning.

"I can go back to the Kirk Gibson game in 1988,'' Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "I think there was about as much electricity in that stadium as there ever was. I think tonight surpassed that.''

It was the biggest comeback ever by a team facing Series elimination, topping rallies from 4-0 deficits by the 1919 Chicago White Sox in Game 6 against Cincinnati and the 1925 Pittsburgh Pirates against Washington in Game 7.

"That was a heck of a comeback by them,'' Giants manager Dusty Baker said.

The platform for the trophy presentation had been set up in the visitors' clubhouse, just as it had been for St. Louis in 1985 and Boston in 1986.

A crazed crowd at Edison Field, some jumping and waving Rally Monkeys in each fist, didn't stop believing.

Glaus' double to the left-center field gap didn't go as far as his seven postseason home runs, but the hit was the most satisfying of his life.

"Baseball is a funny game. Anything can happen,'' Glaus said. "Our goal today was to get to Game 7. Now we're giving ourselves that chance.''

Leading off the eighth inning, Darin Erstad took a ball, then a strike, and powered Tim Worrell's next pitch into the right-field bleachers.

Tim Salmon, the senior Angel and team leader, took a ball and singled sharply into center field.

Chone Figgins ran for Salmon and, after the Giants held a conference at the mound, up came Garret Anderson, hitting just .259 in the Series with three RBI.

He fouled off a pitch, then hit a blooper down the left-field line that seemed to hang in the air for half a minute. No one could catch it, and when Bonds got there, the ball slipped away three times as if it were a bar of soap. While his swing terrifies pitchers, his glove gives batters hope.

Anderson pulled into second base, Nen came in from the bullpen and Glaus stepped to the plate.

This postseason had been strangely unfulfilling for the 26-year-old third baseman, whose 20-12½ vision (with contacts) is among the best in baseball.

He homered twice in the playoff opener at the New York Yankees. And Anaheim lost.

He homered twice in the World Series opener last weekend. And Anaheim lost.

"It doesn't matter,'' he said then. "We didn't win tonight. This team, all year long, has been about winning.''

On an Angels team that generally keeps emotions in check, he's the clubhouse hot head, the one who throws bats when he strikes out, sometimes helmets, too.

He's not glib and doesn't seek attention, even though he led the American League with 47 homers in 2000 and had a career-high 111 RBI this season.

"We're baseball players, not media guru,'' he once said.

Glaus had been just 2-for-7 (.286) in the Series with runners in scoring position, 3-for-13 (.231) in the postseason. Now he's batting .417 in the Series, getting a hit in all six games.

In the eighth, he worked the count to 2-1, then sent a deep drive beyond Bonds' reach. He couldn't pick it up cleanly again, and two runs scored to put the Angels ahead.

"We felt when Spiez hit the home run in the seventh, we were back in it,'' Glaus said. "I was looking, basically, at that point, hit a ground ball, do something, try to score one run, tie the ballgame up, give ourselves a little more life.''

He did so much more.

Glaus prevented the Giants from leaving with the World Series trophy and stopped Bonds from walking off with the MVP award.

Now it's on to Sunday night.

"When we go to spring training, you want to be able to play in that game to give yourselves a chance to win the World Series,'' Glaus said. "And we've done that.''