ANAHEIM, Calif. -- When they put together The Barry Bonds 2002 World Series Highlight Reel -- and with the run he's on, you know production has already begun -- it's easy to imagine what the tape will feature. There will be shots of Bonds gazing smugly at yet another logic-defying home run. A clip of Barry spraying those two Game 5 doubles when he couldn't get a home-run pitch. Maybe even a shot of Bonds getting intentionally walked (hey, it would only be fair).

But after the Angels staged their stunning late-inning rally to win Game 6, 6-5, and force Sunday's Game 7, the final scenes of Bonds' video have yet to be shot. But we know what won't be on that video -- lost in the primate-induced blur that was Anaheim's legendary eighth inning were some Bonds scenes that should wind up on the cutting room floor. Like Barry flubbing a barehand snag of a Garret Anderson single, then booting the ball and even crashing down on his backside before finally corralling it. The scene was straight out of The Three Stooges (Barry, Moe and Curly?) and the E-7 allowed Anderson, the winning run, to advance to second.

	The Barr-O-Meter
	During each World Series game, the Barr-O-Meter will measure the degree to which Anaheim pitchers challenge Barry Bonds. Here's a quick summary of what went down in Game 6: 1st inning: Intentionally walked with a runner on first. 4th inning: Leadoff walk. 4th inning: Solo homer to start the inning. 7th inning: Struck out.
	THROUGH GAME 6 AB H/HR Walks R/RBI Balls Strikes 14 7/4 12 8/6 65 32

The next lowlight wasn't Bonds' fault, but it was a lasting image from Game 6 just the same -- Barry futilely chasing down Troy Glaus' double to the left-center gap, sticking his glove in the air to feign a catch and hopefully delay Anderson from scoring the game-winning run. But the ball was torched, and it sailed high over Bonds' head and banged off the wall. By the time Barry tossed it in, the Angels were ahead and the Giants were snakebitten. Although he managed another mind-blowing home run, Bonds will instead best be remembered as the guy running down (and kicking around) two of the biggest hits of the night.

This isn't to say the eight-time Gold Glover cost his team the game in the field. Far from it. In fact, unless Bonds had volunteered to pitch in relief, there was nothing else he could have done for the Giants on Saturday. But it just goes to show that what was taking place at Edison Field on Saturday night was way bigger than even Barry Bonds. When a team facing elimination scores six runs before making its final six outs, even baseball's biggest figure gets lost in the shadows. And in the end, that's exactly where Bonds was, spending the ninth inning in the corner of the dugout by the bat rack, itching to pick one up and go to work.

Instead, Barry watched as Troy Percival -- a guy he had hit a ball nearly 500 feet off of in Game 2 -- sat down Bonds' teammates to preserve the win. Bonds was in the hole when the game ended.

After the game, the Giants clubhouse was so quiet you could hear the momentum packing up and leaving. Some video equipment was set up and the crate in the corner was marked "Fragile" (much like the Giants' psyches). The grainy image on the screen was paused in the bottom of the seventh, with one out and San Francisco leading 5-0 -- right before The Rally. Good luck to whomever has to sit through that horror film.

Not surprisingly, Bonds was not in the mood to talk. (Come on, the guy hardly talks when the Giants win.) "You guys need to go," he said to the reporters around his locker, shooing them away as he dressed hurriedly. "Go, go, go, go, go, go, go."

It's easy to see why Bonds was testy -- two hours earlier, he was thinking parades and ring sizes. For the first two-thirds of the game, the Giants were cruising to a six-game Series victory and the Bonds highlight videos were on their way to shipping. In the sixth inning, with the Giants up 3-0 and headed for their first championship since 1954, Bonds put what appeared to be a final stamp on one of the greatest postseason performances in baseball history. Facing Francisco Rodriguez, one of the few Angels who has the green light to pitch to Bonds, the slugger took a belt-high pitch and sent it deep into the stands. (Bonds was 0-for-2 against K-Rod in this Series, so it was only a matter of time before he figured him out.) It was perhaps his most awesome homer of the postseason, landing in the same area code as the 485-foot shot he hit off Percival in Game 2. Bonds nearly cracked himself in the face on the JumboTron.

The blast gave Bonds eight homers in the postseason, breaking a tie for the record between him and Glaus. Asserting himself as the greatest postseason home-run hitter ever and helping the Giants win a World Series at the same time? Now that's great theater. For good measure, throw in the fact that Bonds was walked in his first two at-bats -- intentionally his first time up -- in the game, free passes that officially made Barry the most walked postseason player ever in any conceivable category (walks in a Series, intentional walks in a Series, walks in a postseason, intentional walks in a postseason, walks on the wild side, etc.). And also toss in Bonds' strikeout against Rodriguez in the top of the seventh, which seemed little more than ironic closure at that point, with the Giants leading 5-0. The storyline was too perfect. Print it.

Instead, the Angels wrote an even better ending, and now there's a Game 7, giving Barry one more chance to deliver the final scenes of his highlight video. With Bonds' .500 batting average and .731 on-base percentage, this may be the best offensive World Series performance ever. But how will that performance be remembered if it doesn't yield a ring? Barry's already admitted he's not sleeping well this postseason, so Saturday night was probably the worst night of all.

But if he's smart, he'll get some rest. He's got a big day of filming on Sunday.

Andy Latack writes for ESPN The Magazine.