Two. Now let's ruin Philly's Sunday

Well, Jimmy Rollins is clearly no prophet, that much we know. His pre-World Series prediction of "Phillies in five" is now out the window, and the Yanks are just two wins from #27.

Go F yourself, J-Roll.

It definitely didn't look good early. Andy Pettitte had nothing and seemed like he had allergy to the strike zone in the first few innings. Trailing 3-0 and without a hit heading into the 4th, the Yanks looked dead against Cole Hamels.

And then, A-Rod showed up again with another home run, this one off a ludicrously-placed camera above the wall in the rightfield corner. Why you would hang the camera OVER the wall is beyond me, but they got the call right and suddenly it was 3-2. Some people were just waiting to play the "choke" card for A-Rod after two bad games. Hopefully this gets him going for however long this series goes, which hopefully is only two more games.

Pettitte settled down and delivered a classic Andy performance getting through six, AND delivered the game-tying hit in the 5th -- National League baseball, you've gotta love it. That seemed to wake up the rest of the lineup, finally, including Nick Swisher, who was something like 4-for-50 in the playoffs before his double/homer performance in Game 3.

Pettitte now has as many hits in this series as Robinson Cano, who looks clueless at the plate right now.

It's funny, after Game 1, Charlie Manuel took a shot at Yankee fans who left early by saying that Phillies fans would NEVER do such a thing.

If that's true, a lot of people at tonight's game had the same idea for a Halloween costume, because there were several dressed as empty blue seats during the last two innings. And keep waving your towels, because that's just so intimidating.

Oh, and to the guy with the non-stop wolf-whistle: shut the hell up. What is that accomplishing other than deafening the people sitting on either side of you?

Anyway, with tonight's win, the Yankees accomplished their first goal for the three games in Philly: make sure the series goes back to the Bronx.

The next goal is to put a stranglehold on this series by winning Game 4 on Sunday. CC (even on short rest) has an advantage over Joe Blanton, and with the Yankee bats suddenly waking up, they have a big chance to step on Philly's necks.

That of course is the nightcap in a phenomenal day in sports, with the Giants playing the Eagles early. Philly has had a lot of bad sports days in its history, let's make sure tomorrow is the worst.

Couple of other notes from the game tonight:

-Tim McCarver apparently doesn't understand Daylight Savings. After reminding viewers to set their clocks back tonight, he added that he wouldn't want any of us to be late tuning in tomorrow night's game. Of course, if anybody failed to set their clocks back, they would be an hour early, and FOX might actually get a ratings point for their pregame show.

-The Trident Layers commercial is the dumbest thing I've ever seen. "Do you mind if I pay you in gum?" Uhhh, yeah I mind. I can buy gum with the money you give me.

Two to go.