Chase Utley News

Phillies win...Obama on jobless rate...Polanski case PHILADELPHIA The Phillies have avoided elimination from the World Series with an 8-6 win over the Yankees.

Let's get this straight. There's only one Mr. October. What Chase Utley has done is tremendous, hitting five home runs in this World Series, but don't even think about putting the Phillies' second baseman in the same class as Reggie Jackson's five home runs for the World Series champion Yankees in 1977.

If they bothered to sign onto their computers Thursday, the men who run the Yankees and Phillies would have seen a message: '102 days until spring training' The teams that finished behind them this year are weeks into planning for 2010.

Two aging stars will square off on the mound tonight in New York, where the Yankees can wrap up their 27th championship with a Game 6 victory over the Phillies.

Posted by Anthony Stalter SI.com's Jon Heyman compiles five reasons why the Phillies can still pull off an upset and rally to beat the Yankees in the World Series.

Shanoff led off his WUC with the question that many of us were discussing in the stands of Monday's World Series victory for the Phillies is Chase Utley the World Series MVP? But there's more to the story than just a blog/sports talk/newspaper talking point.

Ryan Howard kept striking out. Cole Hamels had a meltdown on the mound. Brad Lidge imploded in a crucial spot.

So get this...if the Phillies win Game 6 tonight, manager Charlie Manuel did not rule out starting ace Cliff Lee on two days rest.

It was a symbolic moment, to be sure. The Phillies' Pedro Martinez, warming up in the bullpen prior to Game 6 Wednesday night here in Yankee Stadium as "Empire State of Mind" by JAY-Z and Alicia Keys blared into the Bronx night: In New York, these streets will make you feel brand new.

Chase Utley needs to kiss the Yankee Stadium dirt tonight. Enough is enough, already.

Hundreds of Yankees fans in New York City who hit the streets to revel in their team's 27th World Series championship have been greeted by an NYPD van, several patrol cars with lights flashing and officers standing on street corners.

Phillies manager Charlie Manuel is not one to change his lineup around, especially throughout the second half of the season and playoffs.

A thought process with words, all about the Boston Red Sox and life itself. Unceasingly amazing, every day, every hour, every minute.

Phillies' Chase Utley has five homers in the World Series. Photograph by: SHAUN BEST, REUTERS, Reuters Chase Utley's power hitting played a key role in helping Philadelphia stave off World Series elimination on Monday, and Phillies manager Charlie Manuel was at the front of the queue heaping praise on the infielder.

Chase Utley could've been a Tiger. The Phillies' star second baseman was drafted 15th overall in the 2000 draft, seven spots after a fella named Matt Wheatland, who Baseball-Reference.com tells us is a right-handed pitcher who made just 16 appearances in the Tigers' minor leagues.

Hundreds of Yankees fans poured into the streets of New York early Thursday to celebrate the team's 27th World Series championship, a party that extended uptown and began building hours earlier when the crowd at Yankee Stadium danced and sang to the music even before the first pitch.

Back to the pinstripe palace on 161st Street. Back to the great theater that is legendary hurler Pedro Martinez taking on the Bronx Bombers on baseball's biggest stage.

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Vicente Padilla has been treated after accidentally shooting himself in his right leg.

Mickey Mantle was crying. When Bobby Richardson flashes back to how Bill Mazeroski's game-ending homer vaulted the Pittsburgh Pirates over the Yankees in the 1960 World Series, he remembers that Mantle wept.

With another game comes more time to talk about the sex appeal of some of the star players.