NEW YORK — Cliff Lee dealing. Chase Utley raking.

That's all you need to tell virtually the entire Philadelphia story from Game One of the

World Series on Wednesday night in Yankee Stadium.

The Phillies got the jump on the New York Yankees with a 6-1 victory by using a simple

formula: Lee carrying a shutout into the ninth and Utley belting a pair of solo home runs to

stun Yankees ace CC Sabathia.

The game was played through a persistent drizzle in front of a crowd of 50,207, the largest

of the inaugural season at the $1.5 billion Bronx behemoth. It sits across the street from the

tarp-covered old Yankee Stadium, which hosted a record 100 Series games but is now in the

process of being demolished.

The Phillies, trying to become the National League's first repeat champions since

Cincinnati's Big Red Machine of the 1970s, suddenly have a quick upper hand. That's because

they have battle-tested veteran Pedro Martinez pitching tonight in Game Two against New York's

A.J. Burnett, who will be making his Series debut.

Lee's Series debut was sensational as he finished with a six-hitter, struck out 10 and

didn't allow a walk. He dropped his ERA in the postseason to 0.54 with his third win. Pretty

amazing for a guy who was 1-3 in eight starts for the Buffalo Bisons just two short years ago.

"This is the stage I've wanted to get to from being a little kid," said Lee, Philadelphia's

trade deadline acquisition from the Cleveland Indians. "I'm here. I've already put all the

work in. There's no sense being nervous and worried. Just let my talents and skills take over

and execute pitches."

The left-hander kept the Yankees completely off balance with solid fastball command on both

sides of the plate and baffling offspeed stuff.

"He had a fastball, cutter, curveball, changeup, used every one of them and had them all

going," said manager Charlie Manuel. "He pitched a heck of a game against a tremendous

lineup."

The Yankees got only one man past first base against Lee in the first eight innings as the

left-hander blanked them on four hits to that point. Derek Jeter was the only Yankee to do

anything, going 3 for 4 and scoring the only run in the ninth, on Jimmy Rollins' throwing

error.

"I knew in the first three or four innings that it was going to be a good day," Lee said.

"I knew I had my stuff and was locating pitches."

"One thing about it," said Yankees manager Joe Girardi, "is he can't pitch every day."

In the first Series game of his career, Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez was held in

check by Lee. A-Rod, who was 14 for 32 in the first two rounds, struck out three times and

grounded to third.

Sabathia struggled with his control at times, walking three in seven innings after walking

just three over his first three postseason starts. But it was hardly a rocky outing for the

Yankees ace and Lee's former Cleveland teammate.

Sabathia gave up just four hits, struck out six in seven innings and got out of a two-out,

bases loaded jam in the first by getting Raul Ibanez to ground out.

With two out in the third, Utley opened the scoring by lofting a full-count pitch just over

the wall in right on the ninth pitch of his at-bat.

"He was pitching me tough, sinkers in, sliders," Utley said. "The approach I was trying to

have was to lay off the slider. It's a tough one to hit on the barrel. I wanted to hit his

fastball and I was able to do that."

It was the second straight year Utley homered in Game One to score the first run of the

series. His homer last year off Tampa Bay's Scott Kazmir got the Phillies going en route to

their 3-2 Game One victory in Tropicana Field. That gave the Phils a jump-start on their first

championship since 1980.

In the sixth, Sabathia had Utley in an 0-2 hole before making a huge mistake by leaking

another fastball over the plate into Utley's power zone. He made no mistake, driving it well

into the bleachers in deep right-center.

Sabathia had not allowed a home run to a left-hander all season. Utley, meanwhile, joined

Babe Ruth in 1928 as the only left-handers in Series history to homer twice off lefty pitchers

in the same game.

"I guess that's pretty good company," Utley said. "But you just take it game to game and

keep working."

Utley had walked in the first, setting a postseason record by reaching base for his 26th

straight game. That broke the mark of 25 set by Baltimore's Boog Powell from 1969-71.

The Phillies got insurance off the New York bullpen. Ibanez pulled a two-out, two-run

single in the eighth off David Robertson to make it 4-0. In the ninth, Shane Victorino's RBI

single off Brian Bruney and Ryan Howard's RBI double off Phil Coke closed the Philly scoring.

The loudest crowd roar of the night came when former Yankees star Bernie Williams was shown

on the HD board in center field during a Yankees pitching change in the eighth. Williams was

in the front row behind the plate sitting with New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg.

There wasn't much else for Yankees fans to cheer for.