ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - Rookie John Lackey was steady for five innings and Garret Anderson hit a three-run double to help the Anaheim Angels take a 4-1 lead over the San Francisco Giants after six in Game 7 of the World Series on Sunday night.

Less than 24 hours after mounting the biggest rally ever by a team facing elimination in the Series, the Angels broke ahead early in the final game of baseball's first all wild-card World Series.

Anaheim came back from a 5-0 deficit in the seventh inning to force Game 7 with a 6-5 victory Saturday night and move one win from the first championship in their 42-year existence. History was on their side - the home team has won the last seven Game 7s.

The Giants were looking to win their first World Series title since 1954, when they still played in New York.

Lackey allowed one run and four hits to put himself in position to become the first rookie to win Game 7 of the Series since Babe Adams shut out Detroit for Pittsburgh in 1909.

The Angels knocked out Giants starter Livan Hernandez in the third. David Eckstein and Darin Erstad led off the inning with singles and Hernandez loaded the bases by hitting Tim Salmon on the right hand with a pitch.

Anderson then lined a 1-1 pitch into the right-field corner to clear the bases with his first extra-base hit of the Series. Reggie Sanders had trouble fielding the ball and was hit in the back by a fan with ThunderStix.

Hernandez left after intentionally walking Troy Glaus. Chad Zerbe got out of the inning without any more damage.

The five runs gave the teams 85 in the Series, breaking the record of 82 set in 1960 by Pittsburgh and the New York Yankees.

Lackey got off to a good start, pitching a perfect first inning and retiring Barry Bonds on a lineout to open the second. Lackey had intentionally walked Bonds the first four times he faced him this Series.

Benito Santiago and J.T. Snow followed with singles to put runners on first and third and Sanders drove in the first run of the game with a long fly to left field.

Lackey, pitching on three days' rest, is the eighth rookie to start the decisive game of the World Series. Only two of the previous seven ended up as champions.

Lackey allowed consecutive singles to Bonds and Santiago with one out in the fourth before retiring Snow and Sanders to get out of the jam.

Brendan Donnelly came on in relief to start the sixth and struck out pinch-hitter Tom Goodwin with runners on second and third and two outs to end the threat.

Hernandez, the MVP of the 1997 Series for Florida, looked uncomfortable from the start, kicking at the dirt on the mound before nearly every pitch.

He had trouble finding the strike zone, too, walking two in the first. But he escaped without any damage when Eckstein was doubled off second in a rare baserunning mistake on Anderson's fly to center.

Hernandez retired the first two batters in the second before walking Scott Spiezio. Hernandez appeared angry when time was called right before a pitch to the next hitter, Bengie Molina.

Santiago, who had asked for time, went out to try to calm his pitcher down, but Molina hit an RBI double on the next pitch to tie the game.

Hernandez won his first six postseason decisions before getting hammered in Game 3 against the Angels. He allowed 10 runs in 5 2-3 innings in his two Series starts this year.

Game 4 starter Kirk Rueter started the fourth for the Giants and pitched three scoreless innings in his first relief outing since the 2000 playoffs.