Dodgers stay playoff perfect, take 2-0 NLDS lead

PHILADELPHIA -- Will Smith drove successful 2 runs successful enactment of Blake Snell, who tossed six masterful innings of one-hit baseball, and the Los Angeles Dodgers outlasted the Philadelphia Phillies, 4-3, successful Game 2 of the NLDS Monday nighttime astatine Citizens Bank Park.

With the win, the Dodgers improved to a cleanable 4-0 successful the postseason, and present ain a 2-0 bid pb headed into Wednesday's Game 3 successful Los Angeles.

The Phillies, eliminated successful the aforesaid circular past play to the New York Mets, person present mislaid 5 of the past six postseason games. And successful Monday's loss, the struggles continued for stars Trea Turner, Kyle Schwarber and Bryce Harper.

"You'd similar those guys to beryllium swinging the bats," Philadelphia manager Rob Thomson said of his apical 3 hitters, who are present a combined 2-21 successful this series. "But I bash similar what we're doing astatine the bottommost portion of the order. And Snell was bully tonight, but I thought our at-bats were better. ... But you bash person to person assurance that those guys volition get it going."

Turner ended the crippled with a groundout successful the ninth inning, erstwhile Los Angeles archetypal baseman Freddie Freeman saved a chaotic propulsion astatine archetypal base.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.