It was another do or die game for the Phillies Wednesday night. Down three games to two, the defending world champions were defeated by the Yankees in Game 7. Thousands of Phillies fans gathered in New York to cheer on their team, and there was at least one place some of them could go and make friends. It's a little taste of home for Phillies fans in the middle of the West Village in Lower Manhattan, complete with the cheesesteaks and Yuengling.
  
>> AARON HOFFMAN/OWNER, WOGIE'S: "There's thousands of bars to watch the Yankees, in New York, there's only a couple to watch the Phillies in peace."

>> REPORTER: Aaron Hoffman opened Wogie's five years ago. It has quickly become a haven for Philly fans.

>> AARON HOFFMAN/OWNER, WOGIE'S: "They come from everywhere. There's more than you can imagine in New York."

>> REPORTER: And Philly pride is all over these walls. Tonight, Hoffman says pitching is the secret weapon to take the Phillies to 7.

>> AARON HOFFMAN/OWNER, WOGIE'S: "I'm thinking if we can keep Pedro in there longer, if he pitches a good game, we keep him there late, we have a chance."

>> REPORTER: This Yankee intruder says not so fast!!

>> KENNETH LAWSON/YANKEE FAN: "I like to show off, we're kind of leading a little bit, I just want to rub it in their faces a little bit."

>> AARON HOFFMAN/OWNER, WOGIE'S: "Go Phillies! We can come back, we can do it!"

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