ANAHEIM, Calif. -- With 30 spring games, 162 in the regular season and a three-round postseason that has gone to a World Series Game 7, the Anaheim Angels' and San Francisco Giants' pitching has worn thin.

Anaheim manager Mike Scioscia has a suggestion: fewer games.

''I think with three rounds of playoffs, there's a strong case to be made for shortening the season to some extent,'' Scioscia said. ''We went with a 10-man pitching staff (for the postseason) and we've just about gauged it right.

''But we're about at the end of where I think our guys are going to be able to go out there and execute the pitches you need to win games. I don't think it's anything uncommon to most staffs.''

San Francisco pitching coach Dave Righetti agreed.

''There's no question, it's a long season for these guys,'' he said. ''It's no longer the starting pitchers that are going on two, three days' rest, now you're having relief pitchers used an awful lot.''

Righetti said some relievers probably have had years taken off their careers because they've been involved a lot in the postseason.

''The relievers are taking on the big brunt of all this,'' he said.

Scioscia believes the postseason takes even more out of pitchers than the grind of the regular season.

''The playoffs are so emotionally draining for pitchers. You have to work harder for every out. There are no breathers through any part of the lineup,'' he said. ''To say that a pitcher's only pitching five or six innings in the playoffs, what's wrong with him? Probably nothing's wrong with him. The club he's pitching against is a match that makes him work harder and maybe he loses his stuff a little sooner.''

Scioscia said that if the playoffs are expanded to add more wild-card teams or more games, ''you definitely would have to shorten the season.''

The majors went from 154 regular-season games to 162 in 1961.

Body found near stadium's parking lot
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- A body was found near Edison Field's parking lot following the Anaheim Angels' victory over San Francisco in Game 7 of the World Series.

Investigators followed a trail of blood leading from the south parking lot to the man, who walked nearly two blocks before collapsing, Anaheim Police Sgt. Rick Martinez said Monday.

Paramedics responded and the unidentified man was pronounced dead at the scene, Martinez said. He declined to release any information about the man's injuries.

Investigators closed a portion of Orangewood Avenue leading to the Riverside Freeway, causing a delay for fans leaving the stadium.

Police reported only sporadic problems Sunday night, including a few fans who threw bottles at officers in the parking lot outside the stadium's main entrance.

Big on Bonds
Angels hitting coach Mickey Hatcher knows what's different about Barry Bonds.

''He's not human,'' Hatcher said, grinning. ''I can't imagine anybody better than him in the game of baseball and I don't care if you say 'Ted Williams.' This guy is scary. I'm just amazed.

''Every time he walks up to the plate, he scares everybody. He scares us on the bench.''

When Bonds comes up, Hatcher said, manager Mike Scioscia has to fight a natural reaction -- holding up four fingers to signal an intentional walk.

''Mike's fingers are always wanting to do this; he's trying to hold his fingers down all the time,'' Hatcher said.

Joe knows Game 7s
If anyone in Edison Field on Sunday knew how to prepare to play Game 7 of a World Series, it was ESPN's Joe Morgan, who got the game-winning hit for the Cincinnati Reds in the deciding game of the 1975 Series against the Boston Red Sox.

''The team that comes out relaxed is the team that's going to win,'' Morgan said. ''They have to do what they did the other six games -- just do the things that they're capable of doing and not try to do too much. Every guy that walks up there shouldn't be trying to hit a home run or do something that's out of their element.''

Morgan also had some advice for both managers.

''The one who panics first is the one who's going to lose. You've got 27 outs,'' he said.

One of the greatest games in World Series history set the stage for Morgan's Game 7 heroics. Bernie Carbo tied Game 6 with a three-run homer, and Carlton Fisk won it in the 12th inning with a home run off the left field pole.

Morgan drew several parallels between that game and Anaheim's game-winning rally from a 5-0 deficit on Saturday night, when Scott Spiezio hit a three-run homer, Darin Erstad added a solo shot and Troy Glaus drove in the tying and go-ahead runs with an eighth-inning double.

''Spiezio's home run was just like Carbo's because it got them off the ground,'' Morgan said. ''They were down and they didn't look like they had a lot of life left.

''We were ahead in our game by three runs and we needed four more outs to be world champions -- and we'd never been world champions before. But when Carbo hit the home run, it changed everything.''

Wright guy in wrong spot
Before Anaheim's John Lackey took the mound Sunday against San Francisco, the last rookie pitcher to start in a World Series Game 7 was Jaret Wright, son of former Angels' pitcher Clyde Wright.

''I was a little more nervous in '97 when my son was pitching, but I'm pulling just as hard for Lackey,'' said the elder Wright, who works in community relations for the Angels.

''I read a statement in the paper that Lackey wasn't nervous. But I thought to myself, 'Well, you'd better get nervous, because you've got to have some nervousness.' It's the top thing you can do when you're on the mound for the seventh game of the World Series.

''If you don't think about it and you don't get nervous, I don't think you're human.''

Jaret Wright pitched well but got no decision for Cleveland in the Indians' 1997 loss to the Florida Marlins.

''The night before the game I asked him, 'Are you nervous?''' Clyde Wright recalled. ''He said, 'Well, sure I'm nervous.' So it keeps building up, and you can tell when he wants you to shut up and get away from him. He'll go about two or three minutes and then he'll just give me a look. Then I told my wife, 'Well it's time for us to go back to the hotel room.'''