Anaheim, Calif. ? The Anaheim Angels finally did what no one else could: get rid of the Minnesota Twins.

Allowing a record 10 runs in a humiliating seventh inning Sunday, the Twins lost 13-5 to Anaheim in Game 5 of the AL championship series won 4-1 by the Angels, who advanced to their first World Series.

For all that went right for Minnesota in 2002 reaching the ALCS with the fourth-lowest payroll in the majors after surviving baseball’s plan to fold the franchise, numerous injuries to key players and two first-round elimination games against Oakland everything went wrong in the seventh.

“I don’t know if I’ve ever seen an inning like that,” manager Ron Gardenhire said. “We couldn’t get anybody out.”

After scoring three times against Anaheim’s dominant bullpen in the top of the seventh, Minnesota’s 5-3 lead lasted barely more than five minutes.

The Twins must have felt like the bottom half of the inning would never end.

“It was the longest inning of my life,” first baseman Doug Mientkiewicz said.

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

Mientkiewicz and shortstop Cristian Guzman were the last two leaning on the dugout railing, watching the Angels celebrate on the field.

Minnesota's Doug Mientkiewicz, left, A.J. Pierzynski, center, and Corey Koskie watch the final moments of Game 5 of the AL championship series. Anaheim won, 13-5, Sunday in Anaheim, Calif.

“I’m big on watching,” Mientkiewicz said. “Just try to soak it up, see the reaction. It helps me swallow it.”

The seventh inning was especially difficult to digest.

“Nine outs away from going home,” Mientkiewicz said. “It’s a tough thing.”

The 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 spirits sagging, Minnesota fell apart.

LaTroy Hawkins gave up three consecutive singles Anaheim’s six straight hits set an LCS record.

J.C. Romero entered and walked in a run.

With one out, Shawn Wooten hit an RBI single. Romero’s wild pitch scored another run, and Scott Spiezio drove in a run with a single.

Bob Wells came in, and Chone Figgins hit an RBI single the Angels’ 10th hit of the inning. David Eckstein got hit by a pitch, and Darin Erstad knocked in the 13th run with a groundout.

Finally, Alex Ochoa struck out.

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’ bullpen a strength all season finished the series with a 13.50 ERA.

“We just scored three off their bullpen,” catcher A.J. Pierzynski said, “and for that to happen … it just wasn’t meant to be.”