Barry Bonds, 2002 NL champion San Francisco Giants celebrate 10-year reunion
SAN FRANCISCO — Barry Bonds says he doesn’t even remember Game 7 of the 2002 World Series. Russ Ortiz still has the ball manager Dusty Baker infamously handed him walking off the mound in Game 6 with a 5-0 lead and the championship eight outs away. Jeff Kent remains bitter about what he calls “the worst defeat of my life.”
Almost a decade later, San Francisco’s collapse against Anaheim still stings.
Members of the 2002 National League champion Giants gathered at AT&T Park again Sunday, receiving light ovations from the crowd before San Francisco faced Baker and his Cincinnati Reds in the finale of a four-game series. Even Baker wore his home Giants uniform — No. 12 — with the rest of his former players during the ceremony while his Reds watched from the dugout’s top step.
“Game 6 happened and I don’t even remember Game 7,” said Bonds, slimmed down to about 212 pounds from his new love of cycling. “I remember standing in the shower thinking, ‘What happened?’”
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