Jimmy Rollins set the tone early on, after battling Dodgers' starter Chad Billingsley on a lengthy at bat, as he put a high and away fastball into the right field seats for an early 1-0 lead.
Billingsley then settled down until the third inning, where he gave up back to back RBI singles to Ryan Howard and Pat Burrell, which plated Jimmy Rollins and Chase Utley respectively, making it a 3-0 Phillies lead.
Dodgers skipper Joe Torre elected to pull Billingsley then and there, replacing him with Chan Ho Park and then Greg Madux.
In the fifth inning, Dodgers' shortstop Rafael Furcal had most likely the worst inning in his baseball career, as he committed three errors which plated two more Philadelphia runs.
He botched a potential double play ball by missing it with his glove, then kicking it away. He proceeded to mis-execute a throw across the diamond to James Loney at first base to end the inning, scoring another run.
When that dreadful inning for the Dodgers was all over, they were down 5-0 heading into the sixth.
The Dodgers got their lone damage off of Cole Hamels in the bottom of the sixth, as Manny Ramirez it a high and away 1-2 changeup from Hamels over the right field wall to make it 5-1.
The Phillies threatened to add to the lead once again in the top of the seventh, with men on first and second with one out, before Dodgers' reliever James McDonald induced a strikeout from Pedro Feliz and a groundout from Carlos Ruiz to end the threat.
The Dodgers also threatened in the bottom of the seventh, with back-to-back two out walks of Matt Kemp and Nomar Garciaparra, before Cole Hamels struck out Jeff Kent looking to end the threat.
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