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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.

SELECT CLUB: Chase Utley joined Kansas City s Willie Aikens as the only players with two multi-homer games in the same World Series since the event s 1903 debut AFP , PHILADELPHIA Wednesday, Nov 04, 2009, Page 20 Chase Utley of the Philadelphia Phillies scores on a single by Jayson Werth of the New York Yankees in the bottom of the third inning in ...

MLB rules don't limit players' meetings at the mound, a freedom the Yankees have taken full advantage of in the World Series.

Phillies right fielder Jayson Werth hit two home runs in Game 3 of the World Series, the second one in the sixth a mammoth blast that careened off the facade of the second deck in left field, missing the $1,000,000 sign by about 20 feet.

With some timely hitting, smart baserunning, and the return of "2009 regular-season" Brad Lidge, the Yankees are one win away from a 2009 World Series victory.

In the divisional series, to open the playoffs, Ryan Howard went 6-for-16, drove in six runs, scored three and struck out four times in five games.