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"They rub the balls up with whatever they rub them up with, and you rub it up and get it on your hand," he said. "It's nothing sticky. Anybody can go touch it. It's just basically just dirt from the ball."
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.
Second baseman Akinori Iwamura made two errors that led to unearned runs, and a frustrated Longoria -- again taunted by chants of "E-va! E-va!" in reference to the actress of the same last name -- struck out three times and swiped a hand through the air when a call went against him at third base.
"We know what's going on, we're just not reacting very well yet, but there is time," Maddon said. "We have to not give them four outs in an inning. We have to have better at-bats."
Had the Phillies come up with more timely hits -- a familiar story -- Philadelphia could have blown open the game earlier. The Phillies were 4-for-14 with runners in scoring position and are 6-for-47 in the Series.
Sonnanstine struggled with his offspeed stuff and needed 89 pitches to get through four innings. He allowed five runs -- three earned -- six hits and three walks.
"It's win or go home. It's simple, and no one in here wants to go home and wonder what if," Floyd said.
Notes: If the Phillies win Monday, it would mark the first time the Series has gone five straight years without reaching a Game 6. The only other four-year stretch without a Game 6 was 1913-16. ... Lenny Dykstra (1993) is the only other Phillies player with a multihomer Series game. ... With 25 postseason homers, the Rays trail only San Francisco (27 in 2002) for most in one postseason.
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