<div><p>Chase Utley blasted two home runs, giving him a record-tying five in the World Series, and reigning champion Philadelphia beat the New York Yankees 8-6 to sustain repeat title hopes.</p><p>Utley smacked a three-run homer in the first inning and belted a solo round-tripper in the seventh to match Reggie Jackson, the Yankee star who smashed five in the 1977 World Series, for the most homers in any Series.</p><p>Southpaw pitcher Cliff Lee, who won the Series opener, baffled Major League Baseball's highest-scoring lineup for a second time to pull the Phillies within 3-2 in the best-of-seven final, which continues Wednesday at New York.</p><p>Utley, who pounded a pair of homers to support Lee's game-one victory, joined Kansas City's Willie Aikens from 1980 as the only players with two multi-homer games in the same World Series since the event's 1903 debut.</p><p>Philadelphia forced a sixth game Wednesday at Yankee Stadium, where game seven would be played Thursday if necessary. Either way, the title will be decided in Yankee Stadium, a 1.5 billion-dollar ballpark that opened this year.</p><p>Only six of 40 teams in World Series history that trailed 3-1 have ever rallied to win the crown, but no such team has even been able to force a seventh game against the Yankees.</p><p>The Yankees are trying to win a 27th World Series title, the greatest run of championship success in American sport. The Yankees, whose 201 million-dollar payroll is baseball's highest, have not won the World Series since 2000.</p><p>But no World Series champion since Minnesota in 1991 has used a three-man starting rotation of pitchers as the Yankees have with right-hander A.J. Burnett and southpaws C.C. Sabathia and Andy Pettitte.</p><p>Utley and Raul Ibanez each homered to give the Phillies an 8-2 lead in the seventh inning, which also featured Ryan Howard striking out for a 12th time in the Series, tying a futility mark set in 1980 by Kansas City's Willie Wilson.</p><p>But the Yankees, baseball's best come-from-behind team in the regular season and comeback winners in seven of 10 playoff games, rallied in the late innings.</p><p>Johnny Damon opened the eighth with a single and took third on Mark Teixiera's double. Both scored on a double by Alex Rodriguez, who advanced on a ground out and scored on a Robinson Cano fly out to pull New York within 8-5.</p><p>Rodriguez, the boyfriend of actress Kate Hudson, has set a Yankee record by knocking in 18 playoff runs, his two in the eighth sending Lee to the showers.</p><p>South Korean relief pitcher Park Chan Ho entered and retired all three Yankees he faced to end the eighth.</p><p>But Jorge Posada doubled off Phillies reliever Ryan Madson to open the ninth inning and Japanese pinch-hitter Hideki Matsui followed with a single to left, bringing Derek Jeter to the plate as the potential tying run.</p><p>Jeter grounded into a double play, although Posada scored from third base, and after a single by Damon, Madson struck out Teixeira to finally bring Philadelphia the victory.</p><p>Rodriguez, heckled by "You Took Steroids" chants for a pre-season confession of doping while with Texas from 2001-2003, smacked a two-out double to left field in the first inning to score Damon for a 1-0 Yankee lead.</p><p>But the Phillies answered immediately as Jimmy Rollins smacked a leadoff single up the middle and Shane Victorino took first after being struck on the right hand by a throw from game two winner Burnett, starting on short rest.</p><p>Burnett's next offering was swatted over the right-field wall by Utley, whose fourth homer of the Series gave the Phillies a 3-1 edge.</p><p>Philadelphia stretched the lead in the third, with walks to Utley and Howard followed by run-scoring singles from Jayson Werth and Ibanez to give the Phillies a 5-1 advantage and prompt the Yankees to remove Burnett.</p><p>Carlos Ruiz put the hosts ahead 6-1, scoring Werth on a grounder off reliever David Robertson by reaching first base in time to foil a Yankee double-play bid.</p><p>The Yankees pulled a run back in the fifth when pinch-hitter Eric Hinske walked, took third on a Jeter single and scored on a Damon ground out.</p><p>Yankees outfielder Melky Cabrera, who suffered a hamstring strain in game four, was replaced in the starting lineup by Brett Gardner, who slammed into the centerfield wall making a catch but stayed in the game.</p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=62531896&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div>

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