The Phillies win a squeeker in Tampa Bay. For you soccer fans out there this is the first world series game Philadelphia has won since 1993.
There is no telling how this journey will end, but this is the start a championship-starved franchise and city had been searching and hoping and praying for.
The Phillies waited 15 years, and seven long days, to play again in the World Series. They didn't disappoint as Cole Hamels and Chase Utley seized the moment in a 3-2 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field.
Hamels continued to elevate his status as one of the best big-game pitchers in Phillies history. Utley came through with a two-run home run in the first inning to silence a boisterous crowd.
"Maybe he doesn't even realize where he is right now," lefthander Jamie Moyer said of Hamels. "But at some point he will."
"If you want to take the wind out of the sails and shut up the cowbells, get some home runs," manager Charlie Manuel said of Utley. "That will do it. Except at Citizens Bank Park. If you hit enough there they ring the bell. They ring the Liberty Bell."
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I guess we have to support the Phillies, eh? I mean they are in Pennsylvania and all.
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