Jayson Werth News

At 12:01 a.m. today, baseball's shopping season began. The Phillies, however, are in no rush to buy.

Injuries and suspension robbed this position of some of it's "glamour" players. Top selections; Grady Sizemore, Carlos Beltran, Josh Hamilton, Torii Hunter, Carlos Quentin and Alfonso Soriano performed below expectations mainly due injuries.

The Phillies entry in the Roy Halladay sweepstakes was all the rage coming out of the general managers' meetings but the Phillies could be looking at other positions rather than starting pitching.

Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins and center fielder Shane Victorino both repeated as Rawlings Gold Glove Award winners.

Chase Utley #26 of the Philadelphia Phillies scores on a single by Jayson Werth #28 in the bottom of the third inning against the New York Yankees in Game Five of the 2009 MLB World Series at Citizens Bank Park on November 2, 2009 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Baseball's penthouse is again decorated with handpainted silk Yankees pinstripe wallpaper.

Check out the ominous looking sky behind Derek Jeter. An omen? Browse more photos>> This is the first World Series that's gone this far in six years, since 2003 -- also involving the Yankees, who lost to the Marlins in six games that year.

What we're talking about after the Phillies' 7-3 loss in Game 6 that gave the World Series title to the Yankees: * One and done.

Mariano Rivera has pitched three innings or more just twice in his postseason career: his first outing, Game 2 of the 1995 Division Series, and in Game 7 of the 2003 ALCS against the Red Sox.

Philadelphia Phillies players celebrate winning the Major League Baseball NLCS playoff series after defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers to advance to the World Series in Philadelphia October 21, 2009.

Charlie Manuel was heading to the interview room when he spotted a reporter walking alongside.

There's been much talk of who might start a possible game seven for Philadelphia should we get to that point.

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Vicente Padilla is recovering from a bullet wound in his leg after a target shooting instructor accidentally shot him.

One by one the Phillies players made the walk from their clubhouse, most practically expressionless, a few wearing a look of utter shock, to a group of team buses in a tiny corner of Yankee Stadium as a light rain fell and their season came crashing down on their heads.

Ryan Howard hit a two-run homer in the sixth inning to cut the Phillies' deficit to 7-3. Times reporters David Waldstein, Tyler Kepner, Ben Shpigel, Jack Curry, George Vecsey, William C. Rhoden and Richard Sandomir are providing updates and analysis during Game 6 of the Yankees-Phillies World Series in the Bronx.

The Phillies, down 3-2 in the best-of-7 Fall Classic, have a chance to make this the first seven-game World Series since 2002.

For the first two games of the 2009 World Series, the hot New York Yankees bats had been fairly quiet.

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.

A.J. Burnett just looked plain scared last night. He had already allowed a three-run homer to Chase Utley in the first inning and seemed determined not to let the Phillies second baseman beat him again.

FOR EACH TOPIC this postseason, Charlie Manuel has a story, an anecdote, an allegory.