By Dave Campbell
The Associated Press

ANAHEIM, Calif. - The Anaheim Angels finally did what no one else could: eliminate the Minnesota Twins.

Minnesota allowed a record 10 runs in a humiliating seventh inning Sunday, losing 13-5 to Anaheim in Game 5 of the AL championship series.

The Angels won the series 4-1 to advance to their first World Series.

After scoring three times against Anaheim's bullpen in the top of the seventh, the Twins' 5-3 lead lasted barely more than five minutes. They must have felt like the bottom half of the inning would never end.

And just like that, the Twins' season - as improbable as three home runs by Anaheim second baseman Adam Kennedy - was over.

The seventh inning was just as up-and-down for Minnesota as last winter, when the team didn't learn until days before spring training that baseball's contraction plan was blocked in court and they'd be playing this season.

However, this game didn't have a happy ending for the Twins.

Given a 5-3 lead, reliever Johan Santana gave up back-to-back singles before Kennedy's uppercut swing sent an 0-2 pitch sailing into the sea of red-clad fans in right field.

Suddenly trailing 6-5 and with spirits sagging, Minnesota fell apart.

LaTroy Hawkins gave up three straight singles. J.C. Romero walked in a run.

The rest was probably a blur to the Twins, but when the damage was done, the Angels had tied a postseason record with 10 runs, and the 13 total runs in the inning set a new postseason mark.

The Twins were on a huge high as they ran to their positions in the seventh.

The momentum started in the bottom of the sixth, when Joe Mays gave up a pair of singles to start the inning. Troy Glaus hit a grounder right at third baseman Corey Koskie, who chased Tim Salmon toward home and threw him out at the plate.

Santana entered with runners on first and second and one out, went 3-0 to pinch-hitter Shawn Wooten but struck him out as Garret Anderson and Glaus took off with the pitch.

Twins catcher A.J. Pierzynski threw Anderson out at third easily to end the inning, give the Twins some hope and take some of the electricity out of the Edison Field crowd of 44,835.

With one out in the seventh, Doug Mientkiewicz, Dustan Mohr and Pierzynski hit singles off Brendan Donnelly to load the bases.

Bobby Kielty, pinch-hitting for Luis Rivas, drew a walk from rookie Francisco Rodriguez to tie it at 3.

Mohr slid headfirst into home on Rodriguez's wild pitch to take the lead, and a sacrifice fly by Jacque Jones made it 5-3.

But Minnesota, which had won its last six games when facing postseason elimination, collapsed in the bottom of the inning.