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Dodgers 5 VS. Phillies 7 : RECAP
October 13, 2008
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PHILADELPHIA -- Shane Victorino and Matt Stairs launched two-run homers in the eighth inning Monday night to power the Phillies to a crushing 7-5 comeback win over the Dodgers and a three-games-to-one lead in the best-of-seven National League Championship Series.
Victorino, the former Dodgers farmhand, homered off Cory Wade, and Stairs' pinch-hit blast came off Jonathan Broxton.
"Cory Wade's numbers against left-hand hitters this year have been really good. He threw a breaking ball and it stayed up," Dodgers manager Joe Torre said of the Victorino shot.
Stairs' homer was the first one Broxton had surrendered at Dodger Stadium since July 2006.
The Dodgers took a 5-3 lead into that inning after scoring twice in the sixth inning on Casey Blake's home run and a run-scoring throwing error by Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard.
Dodgers starter Derek Lowe, pitching on three days' rest, spotted Philadelphia a 2-0 first-inning lead. The Dodgers responded with a run in the bottom of the first inning off Joe Blanton, Rafael Furcal's slap-bunt single cashed in by James Loney's RBI double.
The Dodgers tied the game in the bottom of the fifth on a Manny Ramirez RBI single, Furcal running through a Larry Bowa stop sign to score from second after leading off the inning with a walk. They took the lead when Russell Martin's RBI groundout scored Andre Ethier, who had followed Furcal's walk with a single.
Rookie Clayton Kershaw took over for Lowe in the sixth, as Torre decided Lowe had done what he needed to do for the evening.
"I thought at that point, especially when we took the lead, because it just looked like he was fighting his emotions the whole game. He said he felt fine," Torre said of Lowe. "We were probably going to get only one more inning out of him anyway pitch-count-wise, and I just decided to make the move there."
Kershaw began the sixth by walking Howard, allowing a single to Pat Burrell and a sacrifice bunt by Victorino. Chan Ho Park came on to get pinch-hitter Pedro Feliz on a fly to right, but Park's first pitch to Carlos Ruiz was wild and Howard scored to tie the game.
After the Phillies turned the game around late Monday, the Dodgers will need to figure out a way to turn the series around in Game 5 on Wednesday, following a workout day that Torre said will not include a workout.
"I canceled the workout tomorrow," Torre said. "And these guys are fighting their hearts out, and just I told them to be back here on Wednesday to be ready to play baseball.
"We have to win the remaining games. We can only do it one at a time. I sense we'll be back right here with the right attitude. These guys have been playing hard. There's a little inexperience sprinkled in, but we know that going in. But they're certainly not afraid. And I expect us to be out here on Wednesday and play hard."
Source: [MLB]
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