Yankee fans left the Stadium damp, disappointed and defeated last night after Philadelphia took Game 1 of the World Series — but vowed the Bombers would bounce back tonight.
“I’m really sad,” John Margolies, 32, a golf pro from Carmel, said after the 6-1 loss.
“I spent four hours in the rain to watch the Yankees score [one run]. It’s disappointing.”
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But fans are hardly giving up hope.
Mike Fiddle, 17, of Westchester, said he’s already thinking about Game 2 tonight, when A.J. Burnett takes the mound against old Yankee nemesis — and ex-Met — Pedro Martinez.
“It just gets me ready for [Game 2],” Fiddle said. “It is disappointing to come all the way from Westchester to see them lose.
“But we’re going to win tomorrow.”
Joe Valente, 24, of upstate Hopewell Junction, also kept his hopes up.
“That’s why we play seven games,” he said.
“Hopefully, we win tomorrow and go to Philly and see what we can do.”
If the Yankees lacked firepower in the batter’s box, they had plenty of star power in the stands.
Actresses Kate Hudson and Minka Kelly showed up to cheer their respective boyfriends, Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter.
Hudson also brought her stepdad, Kurt Russell, star of “Escape from New York.”
Also in the high-priced seats were “30 Rock” star Alec Baldwin; actor Matthew McConaughey and his girlfriend, model Camilla Alves; NASCAR star Jeff Gordon; former Rangers captain Mark Messier; and directors Spike Lee and Steven Spielberg.
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Miles away from the luxury boxes, at the Yankee watering hole Blondies on the Upper West Side, diehards packed the bar and kept the joint filled to the bitter end.
Benny Benowitz, an actor from Brooklyn, second-guessed manager Joe Girardi for pulling pitcher CC Sabathia when the score was still close at 2-0.
“I don’t know why they took CC out, he was doing well,” Benowitz said. “They probably thought they could get two more games out of him, but we had to win this game first.”
In stark contrast to the quiet of Yankee Stadium, patrons at the Phillies-friendly bar Wogies in Greenwich Village went nuts for Chase Utley’s two home runs and the dynamic pitching of Cliff Lee.
“Chase Utley is Yankee poison!” screamed Ryan Leonard, a 31-year-old Philadelphia native who now lives here. “Sabathia threw to him twice, and, as your Michael Kay would say, ‘See ya!’ ”
Giving Philadelphia something else to brag about, John Legend — a University of Pennsylvania grad — will sing the national anthem tonight at the Stadium.
The Grammy winner will follow New York natives Jay-Z and Alicia Keys, who are set to give a pregame performance of “Empire State of Mind.”
Jay-Z and Keys were supposed to perform last night, but the wet grounds pushed that gig to tonight.
Additional reporting by David K. Li and Kevin Fasick