(AP) -- PHILADELPHIA - The Philadelphia Phillies are world champions again. It took three days to play it, but they won game 5 last night, 4-to-3, to win their second title ever. Pitcher Cole Hamels earned MVP honors. The streets are a bit of a mess, but Philadelphia sports fans are reveling in the Phillies' World Series championship this morning. Proclaiming, "We did it," Mayor Michael Nutter says the city will hold its first championship parade in 25 years tomorrow. The city's last major sports victory came in 1983, when the NBA's 76ers came out on top of the basketball world. As for baseball, the Phillies' last and only other World Series championship was 1980. After last night's clinching win, fans raced through downtown to Broad Street, cheering, waving and shooting off fireworks. Damage included smashed windows on a couple of downtown stores and a TV van, at least two cars and dozens of huge streetside planters overturned, and traffic signals knocked down.
Police have not yet released figures on the number of arrests, but most of the celebration was trouble-free with broken bottles and trash the worst of it in most spots. The proud team even recieved a call from the president of the united states.
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