Glaus ties mark for postseason homers

Troy Glaus hit two homers Jason Schmidt, including one in his first Series at-bat. AP

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -- Once again, two homers by Troy Glaus weren't enough to give the Anaheim Angels a victory.

Glaus hit two solo home runs in Saturday night's World Series opener but Anaheim lost 4-3 to the San Francisco Giants.

Glaus, who tied a record by hitting six home runs in a postseason, also connected twice in the first-round opener at Yankee Stadium.

But just like in that game, Angels ace Jarrod Washburn gave up three longballs and Anaheim lost the game -- taking away from Glaus' big day.

Glaus was the only big offensive threat Saturday for an Angels team that batted .328 and averaged more than six runs a game in the first two round of the playoffs.

But Anaheim also lost the openers in those rounds before sweeping the rest of the games.

The Angels are counting on Glaus to keep up his power display in the World Series, as well, to come back against the Giants.

He got off to quite the start, connecting in the second and sixth innings off Jason Schmidt in his Series debut to tie the record for homers in a single postseason. All six of his homers are solo shots.

Bob Robertson (1971), Lenny Dykstra (1993), Ken Griffey Jr. (1995), Bernie Williams (1996) and Jim Thome (1998) also have homered six times in a postseason.

Glaus came up with a chance to tie the game leading of the eighth inning against Tim Worrell. With the sellout crowd pounding their red ThunderStix, Glaus was called out on a 2-2 fastball on the outside corner.

He spun away in disgust at the call by plate umpire Jerry Crawford and muttered on his way back to the dugout.

Hitting home runs is nothing new for the 6-foot-5, 245-pound Glaus, whose 118 homers the past three years are the most among all third baseman.

He led the AL with 47 homers in 2000 and hit 41 last year before dropping off to 30 this season. He was still productive, driving in a career-high 111 runs.

In college at UCLA, Glaus broke Mark McGwire's Pac-10 Conference record for home runs in a season with 34.

Glaus, who became the 27th player to homer in his first Series at-bat, became the 44th player to hit two in a Series game.

He joined Ted Kluszewski (1959), Gene Tenace (1972), Willie Aikens (1980), Andruw Jones (1996) and Greg Vaughn (1998) as the only players to homer twice in their first Series game.

 

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