Right when it looked and felt like the Philadelphia Phillies bats were not going to be able to get the job done; Jimmy Rollins’s two-out-two-run double saved the day and gave the Phillies a 5-4 win and 3-1 NLCS series advantage over the Los Angeles Dodgers.

The Phillies only had five hits in the game but were helped by walks and hit batters by the Dodgers pitchers. It was the Los Angeles closer, Jonathan Broxton, who walked pinch-hitter Matt Stairs with one out in the ninth and then hit Carlos Ruiz to put two men on for Rollins’s heroics with two outs.

Ryan Howard hit a two-run home run off Randy Wolf in the first inning to extend his streak to eight straight postseason games with at least one RBI. That ties him with Lou Gehrig for the MLB record.

Los Angeles fought back and scored four runs off Joe Blanton, all with two outs. They got two in the fourth and one each in the fifth and sixth.

But Blanton did a fine job getting through six innings and keeping the Phillies in it; just waiting for the offense to break out of its slumber.

As bad as the Philadelphia bullpen has been at times, tonight they were great. Chan Ho Park worked a scoreless seventh and Ryan Madson did the same in the eighth. Then in the ninth Scott Eyre got the first out before allowing a base hit. Brad Lidge then came on and got the final two outs and put his name on the line of record to pick up the win.

It’s a weird game and one thing is for sure, you can never count out the Phillies even when their backs are against the wall. Can the Phillies finish the NLCS off in game five at home on Wednesday night or will this series head back to Los Angeles?