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Philadelphia ? Joe Blanton became the first pitcher in 34 years to homer in the World Series, Ryan Howard drove in five runs with two homers and the Philadelphia Phillies routed Tampa Bay 10-2 on Sunday to move within one win of their first championship since 1980.
Jayson Werth also homered as the Phillies took a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven Series.
Cole Hamels will try to close out the Phillies? second Series title on Monday night against Scott Kazmir in a rematch of Game 1 starters. Hamels (4-0) is trying to become the first pitcher to win five postseason starts in one year.
Of the 42 teams to take 3-1 World Series leads, 36 have gone on to win the crown.
?It will be absolute bedlam,? Howard said of a Phillies? possible title. ?It will be one of the craziest places on Earth. It?s kind of scary to imagine.?
After splitting the first two games in Florida, the Phillies improved to 6-0 at home this postseason. That includes a rain-delayed 5-4 win in Game 3 that ended at 1:47 a.m. Sunday.
Jimmy Rollins made a great escape from a rundown in the first inning ? perhaps with the help of an umpire?s blown call ? energizing the Phillies and rattling the Rays.
A day after hitting his first homer of the Series, Howard connected twice.
The major league leader in homers and RBIs hit a three-run drive off Andy Sonnanstine that made it 5-1 in the fourth and delighted a crowd of 45,903. Howard struck again with a long, two-run shot in the eighth.
Just 2-for-33 (.061) with one RBI in his career to that point, Blanton homered in the fifth ? only the 15th home run by a pitcher in the World Series, and the first since Oakland?s Ken Holtzman in 1974.
?I guess I just stuck with my same approach to hitting since I got here, you know: Close my eyes and swing hard in case,? Blanton said. ?Hope something good happens. Better to be lucky than good, I guess.?
Blanton, with a body type that?s a throwback to an era of pudgy pitchers, had quite a night. He gave up four hits ? including solo homers to Carl Crawford and pinch-hitter Eric Hinske ? struck out seven and walked two in six-plus innings. /AP
