Schwarber's 2 blasts revive Phils in must-win G3

LOS ANGELES -- Kyle Schwarber homered twice, his archetypal towering changeable clearing the right-field pavilion successful a three-run 4th inning, and the Philadelphia Phillies avoided a expanse with an 8-1 triumph implicit the Los Angeles Dodgers successful Game 3 of their NL Division Series connected Wednesday night.

It was the archetypal Schwarbomb of the postseason for the NL's starring location tally hitter and the archetypal allowed by the Dodgers successful these playoffs. Schwarber snapped an 0-for-8 skid successful the NLDS, slugging a 96-mph fastball from Yoshinobu Yamamoto 455 feet.

Schwarber became conscionable the 2nd subordinate to homer implicit the pavilion, joining Pittsburgh's Willie Stargell, who did it successful 1969 and 1973. Fans lasting adjacent the backmost railing pointed arsenic the shot went out.

Game 4 of the best-of-five bid is Thursday astatine Dodger Stadium.

After Philadelphia's Aaron Nola pitched the archetypal 2 innings, Ranger Suárez came successful and allowed 1 tally and 5 hits successful 5 innings. He struck retired 4 and walked one.

The Phillies tacked connected 5 much runs successful the eighth -- including a solo changeable by J.T. Realmuto and a two-run thrust by Schwarber -- disconnected three-time Cy Young Award victor Clayton Kershaw successful his archetypal postseason alleviation quality since 2019.

Six of the Phillies' 12 hits came disconnected Kershaw successful his 18th and last play with the Dodgers earlier retiring astatine season's end.

Yamamoto retired 9 of his archetypal 10 batters earlier the Phillies jumped connected him successful the fourth. Bryce Harper and Alec Bohm followed with singles and Harper scored connected halfway fielder Andy Pages' throwing error. It skipped distant from 3rd baseman Max Muncy and into the Dodgers' dugout, moving Bohm to third. He scored connected Brandon Marsh's sacrifice alert to near for a 3-1 lead.

The Phillies chased Yamamoto with back-to-back singles by Bryson Stott and Trea Turner successful the fifth.

Reliever Anthony Banda came successful and worked retired of a bases-loaded jam. He struck retired Schwarber aft Stott and Turner's treble steal. Harper flied retired and Bohm was intentionally walked earlier Banda got Marsh connected a swinging strikeout to extremity the threat.

The Dodgers led 1-0 connected Tommy Edman's homer connected the archetypal transportation by Suárez starring disconnected the third.

The Dodgers had the imaginable tying runs connected archetypal and 2nd successful the sixth, but Max Muncy grounded into an inning-ending treble play.

Kershaw allowed 3 runners to scope basal successful the seventh, but nary scored. Another left-hander, 89-year-old Dodgers large Sandy Koufax, was connected his feet applauding arsenic Kershaw jogged to the mound.

Dodgers sluggers Shohei Ohtani and Freddie Freeman were a combined 0-for-8 with 3 strikeouts. Mookie Betts tripled and singled successful 4 at-bats.