"Raul Ibanez led the Phillies at the beginning of the season and he is leading them at the end. Through two games of the National League Division Series, he is hitting .500 with four RBI. He stroked the two-run single in the sixth inning that gave the Phillies life yesterday. He has been here only a year, but it is long enough that you wonder whether he is surprised when that kind of life does not end in a victory."We definitely expect it to end well every time here," Ibanez said yesterday evening, after the Phillies' 5-4, series-evening loss to the Colorado Rockies."Our club is a good club and we play well late in the game," he said. "At the same time, [Rockies closer] Huston Street did a nice job and was very effective. We battled back, and we gave ourselves a chance at the end."Plagued after an incandescent start to the season by a groin injury, Ibanez took a while to recover and never again found that same incandescence. He says there are no physical problems, but, at the same time, he is not running as well as he did at the start of the season - even manager Charlie Manuel acknowledges that.But here and now, when the games mean the most, Ibanez has gotten off to a hot start. And as he watched yesterday's game unfold, with Manuel going deeply and unconventionally into his bullpen to try to squeeze out another win at home, he knew exactly what it felt like."