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Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and family dined at Buddakan Saturday night while his longtime Philly limo driver Big Penny hung outside.

It is great that Shane Victorino is back in the line-up tonight. Didn't think the Phillies would have take him out either.

The Philadelphia Phillies picked up the 2010 team option for reigning AL Cy Young Award winner Cliff Lee, keeping the ace lefty around next season for $9 million.

Subject: Looking back After the Phils lost, Ryan Howard said the Fightin's had a great season.

The Phillies have not yet decided whether to offer a contract extension to pitcher Cliff Lee this off-season, but they have discussed the possibility internally.

Dylan Keenan's gesture in the fifth inning of last night's World Series game said it all.

Shane Victorino makes the Phillies starting lineup despite a finger injury that caused him to be pulled early from game five.

It has been a World Series of misunderstandings for Cole Hamels. First, after his dismal Game 3 performance, the Phillies' embattled left-hander chose his words poorly while explaining his eagerness to end a season that has been personally disappointing.

Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Shane Victorino is day-to-day after taking an A.J. Burnett fastball off his right index finger in Game 5 of the World Series on Monday.

New York broke on top in the first inning as the Series extended into November for only the second time.

Back in April, former Buffalo Bisons star Ben Francisco became the answer to a trivia question when he scored the first run in the new Yankee Stadium.

Rays officials had heard good things about Derek Shelton 's work and were even more impressed when they spoke with him.

IN A WORLD SERIES comparison, a Tale of the Tape tradition dating to 1903 has matched the combatants by position.

The Phillies spent a good part of the 2009 season reminding everyone - coaches, players, fans, the Phanatic - that 2008 was history.

Pat Gillick couldn't stay away even if he tried. He had spent practically all of his adult life around baseball.

Phillies manager Charlie Manuel made one lineup change for Game 2, starting Matt Stairs over Ben Francisco.

Today, they have to wonder what might have been in Los Angeles. They're probably wistful in Texas, annoyed in Anaheim and, yes, frustrated in Tampa Bay.

Share + Oct 28, 2009 10:00 pm US/Central 1 of 1 Ryan Howard #6, Chase Utley #26, Ben Francisco #10 and Jayson Werth #28 of the Philadelphia Phillies celebrate their 6-1 win against the New York Yankees in Game One of the 2009 MLB World Series at Yankee Stadium on Oct.

Good evening from Game 1, staged in an overpriced, taxpayer-thieving, Bronx parkland-destroying, Disney-fied facsimile of the real Yankee Stadium.

Ben Francisco was an afterthought in the blockbuster trade that brought Cliff Lee to the Philadelphia Phillies .