Struggling Utley finds his swing

By Bob Ford Inquirer Sports Columnist The last time the Los Angeles Dodgers were making a real splash in the baseball postseason, Chase Utley was there, too. One night after Kirk Gibson created highlight history forever in the first game of the 1988 World Series, nine-year-old Utley and his father sat in the second level at Dodgers Stadium and watched Orel Hershiser pitch a complete game shutout that gave the Dodgers a stranglehold on their sixth championship. Many pages have fallen off the calendar since then and the Dodgers haven't found their way back to the World Series. Last night, in a bit of a turnaround that Chase Utley couldn't have imagined in 1988, he threw another bat into their path. Utley hit a two-run home run in the sixth inning off a previously untouchable Derek Lowe last night, just two batters before Pat... [read full story]