It was "Code Red" all over again … except this time it was Phillies' red.

"Code Red," as almost any Lancaster Barnstormer fan can tell you, were the two wild nights in 2006 when the local minor-league team won its league championship.

At those games, pretty much all of loud, excited Clipper Magazine Stadium was a sea of red.

Wednesday night, a small part of the Lancaster ballpark again was dressed in the color of love and anger … except this red was all about baseball.

And the ballgame everyone was there to watch was on the stadium video screen and the suite's plasma TV, and the home team was the Phillies in the World Series against the New York Yankees.

"I think this is awesome," said Carmen Holcomb of Paradise, a Barnstormer fan since the team's first game five seasons ago and one of 100-plus team season-ticket holders at a special celebration Wednesday night at the North Prince Street stadium.

"After all, what are the chances of doing this two years in a row?"

The fans were invited by the team to the Wheatland and Buchanan suites for a party that was partly about baseball and partly about catching up with familiar faces.

The faces they see at Clipper throughout the summer.

On Wednesday, with the Phillies in the Series for the second straight year, the Barnstormers for the second straight year hosted a night-of-Game-1 party for their fans.

And except for one young girl in a Yankees shirt ("she's just a kid, so we're taking it easy on her," an older family member in a Phillies' jersey said with a laugh), and another lady proudly clad in the shirt of her Washington Nationals, the primary color in the suites was Phillies' red.

Frank and Evelyn Lefever of Lancaster, who almost never miss a Barnstormer game, were decked out proudly in matching Phillies shirts, predicting "Phillies in five," as in games, as Evelyn Lefever said.

Frank Lefever will be 73 next week and his wife is two years younger, so they were adolescents when the two teams last faced each other in the Series, in 1950.

That time, Joe DiMaggio and the Yankees swept it in four games. But this time will be different, they said.

Another fan, Bo Stauffer of Lancaster, talked about hopping the fence to sneak into Lancaster Red Roses games at old Stumpf Field.

"Now, I sit in the front row" at Clipper Magazine Stadium, he said, carrying a small plate of chicken wings looking quite ready to be eaten.

Said Maureen Gamber of Lititz, "It's really nice to see people you see all summer but who you haven't seen in a while" since the Barnstormers' season ended six weeks ago.

The crowd let out a collective roar as the Phillies' Chase Utley homered in the third inning, giving the Phils a 1-0 lead.

Vince Bulik, the Barnstormers' general manager, smiled as he looked at what they called the "Phestivities."

"The big part about all this is the camaraderie," Bulik said.

"The people you see here are season-ticket holders who you see throughout the year. They know each other, and they all like gathering and talking about baseball.

"Who knows? If the Series goes to seven games, maybe we'll have another one of these."

There's a natural connection between Lancaster's minor-league team and the major-league squad to the east, Bulik said.

The Barnstormers had hosted the Phillie Phanatic this summer, after all, and the Phanatic and "cousin" Cylo had a great time together, inside sources said.

"It's nice to see all these Philadelphia fans, despite the fact that I'm a (Pittsburgh) Pirates fan," Bulik said.

"But this tonight is all really just a continuation of baseball and people coming out to the ballpark."

The Barnstormers plan to open the popular Ice Park at Clipper Magazine Stadium for its fourth season the weekend of Dec. 12, weather permitting, Bulik said.

Also Wednesday, they raffled off a pair of baseballs, autographed by Phillies' pitcher Cole Hamels and Yankees' shortstop Derek Jeter.

Team officials spared the fans from watching commercials by asking Phillies and Yankees trivia questions between innings.

One of the guests Wednesday was Barnstormer mascot Cylo, the bovine-like character.

He submitted to a brief interview, and the distant cousin of the Phillie Phanatic was asked who would win and in how many games.

He carefully counted out, on two hooves, five cow fingers … Phillies in five.

doconnor@lnpnews.com