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Byline: T.R. Sullivan
ANAHEIM, Calif. _ The Anaheim Angels and their 44,584, really needing a victory before leaving for San Francisco, brought all the required good-luck charms to Edison Field on Sunday.
They wore red. They pounded ThunderStix for nine innings. They dangled and twirled their Rally Monkeys.
Then, when the situation grew desperate and it looked as if the World Series was getting away from them, the Angels got serious. They turned to the one talisman that has yet to let them down in the playoffs.
Francisco Rodriguez.
He and Tim Salmon, who smashed a game-winning two-run homer in the eighth, got the Angels even in the World Series with an 11-10 victory over the San Francisco Giants .
"It was awesome," said Salmon, 34, the senior Angel in terms of tenure with the team. "The way the game was going, back and forth, you knew sitting there in the dugout that somebody was going to be the hero. It was me."