SAN FRANCISCO - For a brief moment, it occurred to Dusty Baker that Thursday could be his final time managing the Giants at Pacific Bell Park.

"I thought about that when I woke up," said Baker, whose contract expires after the season. "After that I just forgot about it. This is no time to get melancholy. This is a time for us to push to the finish line."

The Giants have the tape in their sights after their commanding 16-4 victory Thursday night over the Angels in Game 5 of the World Series.

They scored six runs in the first two innings and withstood a mid-innings Angels' charge before breaking things open in the seventh. One more win will give the franchise its first world championship since 1954 when the team played in New York

The Giants might be pumped to learn the Game 5 winner of a 2-2 Series has gone on to win 66.7 percent of the time. Then again the New York Yankees took a 3-2 lead last year before the Arizona Diamondbacks stormed back to win the final two games at home.

With the series shifting to Anaheim, the Angels will have that same chance.

The Giants unloaded Thursday on Angels starter Jarrod Washburn.

Leadoff man Kenny Lofton singled to left in the first and advanced on Jeff Kent's one-out walk. That sent to the plate Barry Bonds, who has become a walking paradox, with the emphasis on walking.

The better he hits, the fewer chances he gets to hit.

Bonds entered the game with nine walks, two shy of the all-time Series record of Babe Ruth of the 1926 Yankees and Gene Tenace of the 1973 A's. Both Ruth and Tenace needed seven games to walk 11 times.

Bonds also had been walked intentionally five times in the Series' first four games. That put him two shy of Bernie Williams' all-time record. But Williams needed 19 games to earn that many free passes.

Angels manager Mike Scioscia compared his strategy to a football team double-covering a wide receiver.

"If that's upsetting to some people or hurting somebody's feelings, I apologize," he said. "But our responsibility is to win ballgames. I think it should be flattering to Barry Bonds, how much he can influence the outcome of a game."

But Scioscia ordered Washburn to pitch to Bonds with runners at first and second and one out. Perhaps he shouldn't have.

Bonds rocketed Washburn's 2-1 slider to right field. It took just two bounces before slamming into the wall.

After Benito Santiago doubled the Giants' lead with a sacrifice fly and Reggie Sanders was intentionally walked, Washburn became erratic. The 28-year-old lefty walked J.T. Snow and issued a bases-loaded walk to David Bell, bringing in the Giants' third run.

The Giants scored three more in the second after Bonds was - you guessed it - walked intentionally for the sixth time in the series. Santiago responded with a two-run single and Sanders scored Bonds with a sacrifice fly.

Although he would rather get more chances to drive in runs, Bonds has insisted he's having fun in the Series.

"He's not going to say that if he's not," Baker said. "Around the batting cages he seems to be loose but focused. Barry was happy as heck after it was decided we'd come to the World Series. A lot of people said he seemed stoic and distant.

But who knows what's inside Barry?" The Angels cut into the Giants' lead with three runs in the fifth and one in the sixth.

But San Francisco put it out of reach after that. Jeff Kent ripped a two-run homer in the sixth and then followed that with a two-run blast in the seventh.

Rich Aurilia added a three-run shot in the eighth, giving the Giants 11 homers for the Series, which tied the all-time record set by the 1956 Yankees in seven games against the Brooklyn Dodgers.