Three homers give Phillies a split

The Dodgers ran out of luck on Sunday night, as the Phillies hit three taters to get an easy win, 7-2. The two teams with the best records in baseball earned a split in the four-game series.

The game was close through the first four innings. Pedro Feliz got the Phillies on the board first with a sac-fly RBI in the second. An RBI single by Matt Kemp in the fourth tied it at one. It could have been more, but Casey Blake was stranded on third with only one down.

The fifth is when Randy Wolf started to lose control, as Jimmy Rollins lead off with a single and Pedro Feliz walked. Carlos Ruiz, whose name will pop up later, hit an RBI single to make it 2-1. Following a sacrifice bunt, Shane Victorino, another person whose name will pop up later, lined one hard off of Wolf's glove that scored Feliz for the 3-1 lead.

Another big chance to score for the Dodgers came in the sixth, but they didn't exactly deliver. Blake doubled to start things off. James Loney hit a single for runners in scoring position and nobody down. Kemp had a chance to get a big hit, but instead grounded into a double play. Well, it really wasn't, as replays showed he beat it out, but it still was pretty weak play. The run did cut it to 3-2, however.

Wolf tried to get another inning in, but was crushed in the seventh. Those two guys I talked about before, Ruiz and Victorino, hit long home runs. Ruiz's scored a couple, and Victorino's was a solo shot that was absolutely tattooed. At 6-2 to end the inning, the game was pretty much over.

On the night, the Dodgers had nine hits, but left eight on. They just couldn't get that big hit. In fact, their offense has really cooled down in the last week, they've just found ways to win anyway. But with Wolf giving up six runs in six and 1/3 innings, that just wasn't going to happen this time.

The schedule is a bit odd this week, as they have off days on Monday and Thursday. They'll host a two-game series against the Padres before going to Texas for three games in Interleague Play. Chad Billingsley will go on Tuesday.