"In order for the Phillies to do what no National League team has done since the 1944 St. Louis Cardinals, they need to do two things they have never done before.

One is to force the first Game 7 in franchise history Saturday night when they play the San Francisco Giants in Game 6 of the National League Championship Series. The other, of course, is to win Game 7, which would make them the fourth National League team in history to rally from a three-games-to-one deficit and the first NL team since those '44 Cards to play in three straight World Series.

With the series back at Citizens Bank Park, Chase Utley and Ryan Howard need to step up their games immediately.

After watching the Phillies perform a three-game sweep of his Cincinnati Reds in the National League division series, manager Dusty Baker was invited by his former team - the Giants - to attend Game 4 of the NLCS at AT