Giant-sized effort evens World Series

Pablo Sandoval's single set up the tying run in the fifth inning before he followed with a go-ahead, two-run single in the sixth to send the San Francisco Giants surging past the Kansas City Royals 11-4 on Saturday at a raucous AT&T Park.

Hunter Pence, eyes ablaze, had three hits, three RBIs and a terrific sliding catch in the ninth inning and Joe Panik hit a two-run double in a four-run seventh. San Francisco piled on 16 hits in a game that took exactly four hours to play.

"We never give up, that's the thing," Sandoval said. "We've been doing it all year in these situations. We know how that feels."