Why I admire Chase Utley

Chase Utley is a badass. Of course you already knew that, but last night's game confirmed it. By now, the play in the ninth inning of yesterday's game has been shown over and over again where Utley hit an infield single to put runners on first and third with one out. Utley's hit set up Ryan Howard's game winning sacrifice fly. The instant replay clearly shows that the ball hit off of Chase Utley's leg and should have been ruled a foul ball. Moreover, it was very questionable whether Utley sohld have been called safe at first base.
While Rockies fans rightfully complain about the poor umpiring on that play (although the umpiring was also very poor on several pitches to Matt Stairs in the eighth), Utley deserves a lot of credit for making that play happen. When the ball bounced off of Utley's leg, he didn't recoil or stop and kept running as if the ball was in play. This caused the umpire to miss the fact that the ball should have been ruled foul. Then, since Utley was running hard to first base Rockies catcher Yorvit Torrealba needed to hurry the throw to first base which caused Todd Helton to come off the bag at first. Had Utley stopped running or cringed when the ball hit his leg, this key play would not have happened and the Phillies might not have won the ballgame.