By Andrew Drennen, ESPNRISE.com Baseball

Through the first five games of the World Series, Phillies' second baseman, Chase Utley, hit five home runs.  That has put him with Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson as the only two players in World Series history to hit five in one series. 

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	Chase Utley #26 of the Philadelphia Phillies hits a home run in the bottom of the seventh inning of Game Five of the 2009 MLB World Series at Citizens Bank Park on November 2, 2009 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Utley has at least one more game left, two if the Phils can force a Game 7. And there could be a new record holder.
 
According to the CalHiSports.com State Record Book & Almanac, Utley hit at least one homer in six straight games.  He did that in 1997.  Utley held that record for only one year, as Ryan West out of Quartz Hill High School tied it in 1998. 
 
He went to school at Long Beach Poly, graduated in 1997 and moved on to play at UCLA for three years.
 
In his senior year, Utley hit .535 (improved from .337 as a junior) with 12 homers and 48 RBIs. In his senior year, Long Beach Poly finished 8-5 in Moore League play.
 
The Dodgers took him in the 1997 draft, but Utley went to UCLA instead.
 
"I could see that Milton was a sure major league ballplayer," Ken Munger, a coach on the Poly staff said in a Los Angeles Times article. "I didn't really see the same in Chase."
 
The Milton, Munger referred to was Milton Bradley, who played with Utley at Long Beach Poly and graduated a year ahead of him.  Bradley was good enough in high school that he played of the Los Angeles Dodgers Area Code Baseball Team in 1995.
 
Believe it or not, the Phillies' starting second baseman was even cut as a freshman, but hard work paid off.
 
"I've seen a lot of players," Joe Perruccio a coach at Poly then told the Los Angeles Times.
 
Perruccio sent 26 players to the pros and one, Tony Gwynn, to the Hall of Fame. "And yes [Utley] is a surprise. But the work ethic isn't. So in a way you're not surprised."
 
Even with Long Beach Poly having two future Major Leaguers on its team, the Jackrabbits still did not make to the playoffs.  With that said, however, Utley was the Moore League Most Valuable Player.
 
Cal-Hi Sports (now CalHiSports.com) selected Utley for the All State Baseball Team.  Other noteable players on that year's team was Gerald Laird (La Quinta, Westminster), Phillies teammate Ryan Madson (Valley View, Moreno Valley), 1997 State Player of the Year Jon Garland (Kennedy, Granada Hills) and Garrett Atkins (University, Irvine). 
 
After a solid career as a Bruin, the Phillies selected Utley with the No. 15 pick in 2000, and the rest as they say is history.
 
Actually, there still may be some history left to write.