I'm going to defend Utley a bit here. On the first one, he made a great play just to get to the ball, so while the throw was off, I don't think the play normally gets made by many 2b's.
On the 2nd one, Utley was hit as he was beginning to throw. It wasn't a hard hit (yet), but the runner (Stubbs I think) had made contact with Utley as he was releasing the ball. In addition, Howard didn't move his feet to get the ball. Howard just moved his arms, but since his foot was on the middle of the bag, he could have moved his foot to the end of the bag and stretched and he likely would have gotten the ball, since the play as it was had the ball just hit off of Howard's glove.