NYY: Mark Teixeira (1), Hideki Matsui (1) Prior to the game, Jay-Z and Alicia Keys

performed the song "Empire State of Mind " for the Yankee Stadium crowd. [71] This game marked the first postseason appearance of Pedro Martínez against the Yankees since the 2004 American League Championship Series , when he was with the Boston Red Sox and a part of the two teams' long standing rivalry; it was also the second-ever World Series start that Martínez made. [72] There was much media interest in Martínez's "return to Yankee Stadium" for Game 2, as he told reporters at a pre-game press conference "When you have 60,000 people chanting your name, waiting for you to throw the ball, you have to consider yourself someone special, someone that really has a purpose out there."  The Phillies scored first for the second game in a row, with Raúl Ibañez hitting a
ground rule double and then scoring on a
Matt Stairs RBI single off A. J. Burnett in the second inning. Mark Teixeira tied the game with a home run in the fourth inning, and Hideki Matsui broke the tie in the sixth with another homer. [74] Martínez departed the game after giving up consecutive hits to Jerry Hairston, Jr. and Melky Cabrera to start the seventh inning, and reliever Chan Ho Park gave up an RBI single to Jorge Posada .[75] With Cabrera at second base and Posada at first, Johnny Damon hit a low line drive at Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard. Howard grabbed the ball and threw to second where Posada was tagged and called out while standing on the base. First-base umpire Brian Gorman ruled that Howard had caught the ball in the air and thus the result was an inning-ending double play. This was the first of two calls by Gorman in this game which were later shown to have been wrong by video replays.  Burnett left after seven innings and was replaced by Mariano Rivera in the eighth. [74] The Phillies put two runners on with a walk to Jimmy Rollins and a single by Shane Victorino with one out in the eighth. [74] However, Chase Utley grounded into an inning-ending double play[74] ending on a close play at first base, the second close call made by the first base umpire Brian Gorman. Gorman himself later admitted he missed this call, saying "on a freeze frame, it looks like there's a little bit of a ball outside his glove when he hits the bag." Ultimately, Rivera threw 39 pitches and got six outs for his 38th postseason save, his tenth in World Series play.