The Yankees with their 3-1 lead are now 27 outs away from their 27th World Championship. Keep it right here during the game for updates on my live blog.

8:00 P.M. First pitch here at the ballpark. I just had a little dinner with Chris Shearn. A roasted pork sandwich with Chickie's and Pete's Crab Fries...mmm mmm. Jeter just grounded out and Damon just got a base hit. How am I doing so far? I keep saying that I think the Yankees are going to win tonight, but I seem to be in the minority here among everyone here.

8:03 P.M. Does A-Rod get hit again? A smattering of boos around the ballpark.

8:05 P.M. New Yankee Postseason record with 16 RBIs now for A-Rod surpassing Scott Brosius from 1998 and Bernie Williams from 1996. Why does anyone continue to pitch to this guy? Good start for the Bombers. They get on the board early. I was saying before, Cliff Lee is due for a clunker. He was 2-4 with a 6.13 ERA in his last seven regular season starts. This guy isn't Sandy Koufax. Pitchers rarely ever have two lights out games in a row against the Yankees.

8:10 P.M. So here's the situation. The last two games we have sat and stood in the Press Box, but tonight we have assigned seats in the auxiliary Press Box, which is actually out among the fans. We are right near the left field Yankees fan group that just did roll call. That was very funny.

It's a chilly 50 degrees out here tonight and the one thing we do have is a TV right in front of us without audio, so we can examine close plays. I did however catch the first Black Taco commercial. I couldn't miss that one.

8:14 P.M. Jimmy Rollins gets a base hit. I wonder if he predicted that before the game. He's been so dead on this series.

8:15 P.M. Wow. Jimmy Rollins was going on the pitch. Shane Victorino squaring to bunt and got hit by that pitch. If he didn't square to bunt, I don't know if that would have hit him.

8:17 P.M. Chase Utley just hit his fourth home run of the World Series. Burnett has to calm down here. The positive is that Lee is not throwing his best stuff as evidenced in the first inning. He needs to stop the bleeding here. Just remember, he gave up four runs to the Angels in the first and battled the rest of the night.

8:20 P.M. That last pitch to Howard sure looked like a strike. The strike zone looks like it's the size of the toy you get in the Cracker Jack box.

8:23 P.M. A.J. Burnett records his first out of the game. A lot of game left.

8:24 P.M. Chickie's and Pete's is not agreeing with me right now! Such a hot day, milk was a bad choice.

8:26 P.M. Why does it feel like A.J. always has that one bad inning. Maybe he got it out of his system and he will be better the rest of the way out. The question is how is Cliff Lee going to respond after a shaky first inning himself?

8:35 P.M. Cliff Lee goes 1-2-3 against the bottom part of the order. Chris Shearn and I saw a couple of grown men in Clifford the Big Red Dog costumes down on Ashburn Alley. Grown men! You couldn't pay me enough to wear a Clifford costume, unless I was dressing up like Martin Short from the movie Clifford. I'll stick with my Al Bundy Halloween Costume for the next 20 years.

8:40 P.M. I'm not listening to the announcers, but someone just told me that Tim McCarver said AL hitters don't know Cliff Lee. Is he kidding me? Really? Didn't he spend the majority of his career in the AL including this season? He has to think about retirement.

8:46 P.M. There were some technically difficulties on the site, but the blog is back in a big way. Burnett, even though he walked Rollins, has calmed down a bit. This game to me has all of the makings of that A.J. game against the Angels.

8:49 P.M. sharabc123 I really do think he's settling down. How many times have we seen A.J. have that bad inning, which sometimes comes in the first and then settled down. He's going to have to if they have plans on celebrating here in Philly tonight.

8:53 P.M. Another good Damon at bat to work the walk. Mark Teixeira is currently hitting .067...67! I think that was my final grade in Spanish class in high school. I'm not bilingual...come to think of it I'm not very lingual.

8:54 P.M. The Mark Teixeira average continues to fall, but Chris Shearn just predicted home run to me....let's see if he's right.

8:55 P.M. A-Rod hit that one in the air, but just missed it. Everytime someone has an incorrect predicition I just wish I carried around a speaker that had the BOM BOM BOM BOM, WAH from the Price is Right. I would be playing that an a lot.

9:00 P.M. Of the 26 batters in the last game, Burnett had thrown first pitch strikes to 21 of them. Now I don't have the official count tonight, but his ratio is no where near that. I'll cook up that stat after this half inning.

9:02 P.M. Did Chase Utley use the grease from hair on his feet that time to make himself faster to steal that bag? I saw a shot of him in the dugout before. He looks kind of like a young Pat Riley. It's the Pat Riley School of Dippity Doo.

9:07 P.M. One thing that has been a problem with Burnett all year was control. He led the American League with 97 walks. He's showing it tonight.

9:08 P.M. Jayson Werth with the RBI single and still no outs in this inning.

9:10 P.M. A.J. Burnett's night is over after giving up another RBI single. No outs, runners on first and third and now David Robertson is in the ballgame. He'll probably pinch hit Jorge as soon as possible. Molina will stay in the game until that point. A.J. Burnett ends the season on a sour note after basically saving the Yankees bacon in game two. The Yankees wouldn't be here without him.

I had a good feeling all day about this game. Maybe it was a fever caused by more cowbell.

9:16 P.M. Cliff Lee up at the plate now. The only saving grace or silver lining is that the Yankees have worked his pitch count tonight and if they can get him out of the game, they may be able to get to the bullpen.

A 6-1 lead is very hard to come back from. We've all seen the Yankees do it, but they have to get out of this inning first. Geez!

9:22 P.M. Am I the only on Twitter right now with the mentality that there is a lot of game to be played. Again, Cliff Lee has thrown a lot of pitches. If they can get him out of this game and get to the bullpen, who knows? They are even going to have pop at the bottom of the lineup when Jorge comes in the game. Search for your inner Yogi, It ain't over till it's over.

9:27 P.M. Robinson Cano has been an automatic out in this World Series. He is now 2-for-17 with a .117 batting average. Just awful. What is that about? This is someone that hit .320 in the regular season.

9:32 P.M. Saw that Joe Girardi was talking to the announcers. Would have like to have heard what he said. I'll keep saying it till I'm blue in the face, which I am right now because it's cold out here. There is a lot of baseball to be played here.

9:38 P.M. Jorge Posada batting for Molina...It's the right move and again the Yankees have some pop at the bottom of the order the rest of this game.

9:42 P.M. Eric Hinske now up at the plate pinch hitting, ending D-Rob's night. David Robertson did his job.

9:44 P.M. Eric Hinske draws the walk and Jeter gets another postseason hit. Would you expect any less from Jeter. By the way one swing and this is a ballgame again everyone.

9:47 P.M. Looking out at the bell in centerfield and it looks like two morons have climbed up there. Security is going nuts on them right now. Kevin Sullivan, "They are so arrested when they come down."

9:48 P.M. Teixeira continues to struggle at the plate. Inning over, but the Yankees did chip away a little bit. Alfredo Acevas now in the game for the Yankees.

9:52 P.M. What a play by Brett Gardner in center. As he was going back on that ball underneath where we are, it looked like he was going to get it as soon as he stuck out his glove. Jayson Werth rounded the bases like he had hit an inside the park home run. Was probably hoping for Phil Cuzzi to call that a dropped ball.

9:55 P.M. The Phillies again fail to score. This is where the Yankees can continue to chip away, work Lee's count and try to get into that bullpen. The Philly Phanatic is driving around on his ATV...He's money. One of the best mascots in sports if you ask me. The only one I like better is the now defunct San Diego chicken, who I still think is Pete Rose underneath that mask.

10:00 P.M. Even with A-Rod's flyout, I don't know what it is. I still feel the Yankees are going to win this game. People might think I'm nuts, but I just feel like it's goling to happen.

10:01 P.M. There are three Phillies fans on the roof. It's definitely not security and the guys are still up in the bell tower so to speak. Interesting.

10:05 P.M. Not going to comeback in this game leaving the bat on your shoulders.

10:10 P.M. I'm officially freezing out here, but I just remembered the last time I wore that coat was Game one. It's officially now in my bag. I am risking hypothermia for a Yankees comeback all on a coat theory.

10:20 P.M. Posada has to know that the if you try to call timeout the ump doesn't have to grant it. Also, take your bat off your shoulders.

10:21 P.M. Jeter up...let's see if he can rustle up any more magic.

10:24 P.M. Nope.

10:30 P.M. I'm back, sorry about the delay. Chase Utley is unreal. He now has five home runs in the World Series. The most in Phillies franchise history. That guy is deadly. If the Phillies wind up coming back and winning the series, there my friends is your M-V-P.

10:34 P.M. Chase Utley is now tied with Mr. October for most home runs in one World Series with five and he's the first player since Willie Aikens in the 1980 World Series to have two multi-hr games in one World Series.

10:39 P.M. OH BOY! THAT IBANEZ HOME RUN WAS A ROCKET. In fact he hit that car sign. He wins a Chrysler! Can he at least get a steak for that?

10:43 P.M. The Phillies pep girls are on top of the dugout in shorts...are they crazy?

10:50 P.M. A-Rod is a BEAST! He's now on third after the Swisher groundout. Park on the mound applying his famous spitter.

10:59 P.M. The internet went down here, but we are back. It's now 8-5 after that sac fly.

11:04 P.M. Yolly, anything can happen. I'm not as confident as I was hours ago, but I still feel that three runs is not a huge lead against the Yankees. Posada, Matsui, and Jeter are going to hit in the ninth. If they could get something going, they go right back into the heart of the Yankees order. and against whoever the Phillies throw at them, anything can happen. 

11:13 P.M. I'm like Billy Joel right now and I'm keeping the faith.

11:28 P.M. They just sang High Hopes here. Harry Kalas' singing on the big board. The Yankees have to be pleased. They are going home up 3-2 with Andy Pettitte on the mound. Look Burnett was awful, but my god the Yankees were in this game till the end. This loss is on Burnett and Coke, but again it comes back to the Bronx. Fans have been waiting a long time for a celebration and they might get it.