World Series Game 2 Time: Philadelphia 1, Yankees 0, Fourth Inning

Chang W. Lee/The New York Times-The Phillies Raul Ibanez makes a diving catch in left field, robbing Robinson Cano of an extra-base hit in the bottom of the second inning.
Times reporters will be providing updates and analysis during Game 2 of the Yankees-Phillies World Series in the Bronx.

Update | 9:20 p.m. Martinez makes a big mistake by walking Jose Molina with one out, but escapes trouble by striking out Jeter looking. Damon then gave the ball a ride to the edge of the warning track in right, but Victorino had it without fuss. Still 1-0 Phillies. Fifty-nine pitches for Martinez. – DW

Update | 9:15 p.m. Martinez, the master of changing speeds, has struck again. He just struck out Jeter for the second straight time, firing an 87-mile-per-hour fastball that split the plate. His first time up, Jeter struck out swinging at an 88-m.p.h. fastball that also split the plate. Jeter doesn’t — shouldn’t — miss pitches like that, but he is because Martinez is keeping the Yankees off-balance so effectively. – Ben Shpigel

Update | 9:06 p.m. Burnett just threw a pitch way outside to Chase Utley and he acted as if he had torn a nail or a blister on his finger. He’s suddenly having a little trouble finding the strike zone. Then he walked Utley intentionally to pitch to face Ryan Howard. Here comes pitching coach Dave Eiland to the mound to go over strategy. Big at-bat coming up. Rollins, who went to second on Shane Victorino’s ground out, is having a chat with Jeter, his former teammate on the United States team in the World Baseball Classic.

Burnett strikes out Howard with a curveball with two on to end the top of the third. Howard was 2 for 12 against Burnett coming into the at-bat. Yankees were smart. Rather pitch to Howard with a fresh count than pitch to Utley after he had already worked a hitter’s count. –DW

Update | 8:58 p.m. Speaking of pitch counts, Burnett just hit the half-century mark with only one out in the third. Plus, he’s seemingly thrown over to first base about that many times trying to keep Rollins close to the bag. Rollins drew a one-out walk. –DW

Update | 8:45 p.m. Pedro’s doing his thing, but he’s thrown 37 pitches already with only two outs in the second inning. That could be very important. And Ibanez just made a great diving catch to take away an extra-base hit from Robinson Cano with Hideki Matsui on first base. Martinez gets jerry Hairston Jr. to fly out to right to end the inning. But he’s needed 43 pitches to get through the first two innings. – DW

Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images Raul Ibanez slides home to score the first run of the game off a Matt Stairs’ single in the top of the second inning.

Update | 8:32 p.m. The Phillies are on the board first again. Raul Ibanez hit a two-out bloop double in the left-field corner and then designated hitter Matt Stairs hit a sharp grounder that went right through a hole in Alex Rodriguez’s glove, or so Rodriguez appeared to think as he stared at the leather after the play.
Ibanez scored easily despite Damon’s reasonably strong throw home and Phillies lead, 1-0. –DW

Elise Amendola/Associated Press Pedro Martinez pitching in the first inning, making his first postseason start since 2004.

Update | 8:18 p.m.
Martinez keeps the chanting at bay by posting a 1-2-3 inning of his own. Using a variety of pitches, including his famous changeup and a well-placed fastball, he did a little of what Cliff Lee did in Game 1 by making it up so the Yankees couldn’t time him.

He took a little off a straight fastball (88 miles per hour) to get Derek Jeter swinging, he got Johnny Damon on a curveball, and then after setting up Mark Teixeira with a great changeup that fell away from Teixeira in the left-hander’s batter’s box, he got him to pop up on a high fastball. Shrewd pitching indeed. – DW

Chris McGrath/Getty Images A.J. Burnett pitches in the first inning of Game 2.

Update | 8:09 p.m.
A.J. Burnett looks pretty sharp as he works a 1-2-3 first inning. At any rate, it’s a lot better than the first inning of his last start. Sometimes the problem with him, scouts say, is that there are times when it seems as if he doesn’t know where the ball is going.

Martinez just took the mound. No noise. no chants. Not a peep. What’s up with that? He did get booed a little during pregame introductions, but nothing major. Perhaps we overestimate the negativity toward him. But if Martinez has to walk off the mound in the middle of the third inning, we’ll definitely hear something.

Ahhhh, here we go. The first chants direct at Martinez. The fans are settling in in the Bronx. – DW

Barton Silverman/The New York Times The Philadelphia Phillies stretch during batting practice before the start of Game 2.

Preview
Game 2 of the World Series is set to begin in what could be an electric atmosphere tonight at Yankee Stadium. A stage is set up in the outfield behind second base for Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’ pregame performance of “Empire State of Mind,” but the real excitement will begin in the bottom of the first inning when Phillies starting pitcher Pedro Martinez takes the mound for what will likely be a thunderous “Who’s Your Daddy?” chant.

Martinez, already a lightening rod at Yankee Stadium from his days with the Red Sox, added to the intensity Wednesday by addressing all his feelings about pitching in New York against the Yankees over the years. During the interview, he said he was the most influential person ever to stepped in Yankee Stadium.

But so far, Cliff Lee has proven to be the most influential person in the series so far with his complete game masterpiece in Game 1, in which he struck out 10, walked none, and allowed only one unearned run in the ninth inning.

Martinez has had mixed results against the Yankees in the postseason, striking out 17 in one playoff game, and giving up two costly runs in the eighth inning of another — Martinez also said Wednesday that his shoulder was hurting then — and almost squandering an insurmountable lead in Game 7 of 2004 out of the bullpen.

But with the series set to switch to Philadelphia for Games 3 through 5, the Yankees would like to even the series tonight, and the pressure is on A.J. Burnett to deliver.

When Jay-Z and Keys on the stage, most members of the Phillies and the Yankees were on the top step of the dugouts watching and swaying back and forth. More important, Martinez was loosening up in the outfield. The show is about to begin. – David Waldstein

Here are the lineups for Game 2:

Phillies
1. Jimmy Rollins, SS
2. Shane Victorino, CF
3. Chase Utley, 2B
4. Ryan Howard, 1B
5. Jayson Werth, RF
6. Raul Ibanez, LF
7. Matt Stairs, DH
8. Pedro Feliz, 3B
9. Carlos Ruiz, C
Pedro Martinez, RHP

Yankees
1. Derek Jeter, SS
2. Johnny Damon, LF
3. Mark Teixeira, 1B
4. Alex Rodriguez, 3B
5. Hideki Matsui, DH
6. Robinson Cano, 2B
7. Jerry Hairston Jr., RF
8. Melky Cabrera, CF
9. Jose Molina, C
A.J. Burnett, LHP