Yesterday the Los Angeles Dodgers faced off against the Philadelphia Phillies in the first game of the National League Championship series. Going into the game everyone thought that it was going to be a low scoring game, because both teams had their number one starters pitching. For the Phillies it was Cole Hamels, and for the Dodgers it was Derek Lowe who was 4-0 in his last 6 post-season starts going into last night. The Dodgers jumped out to an early 1-0 lead in the first inning when Manny Ramirez bashed a RBI double to the deepest part of the ball park off the top of the center field wall. The score was stuck at 1-0 until the fourth inning when Dodgers rookie second baseman Blake DeWitt hit a single which scored the final run for the Dodgers which made it 2-0 after four innings. The Philadelphia faithful was getting restless until the home team bats came alive in the sixth inning. The inning started off with a ground ball to short stop Rafael Furcal who made a poor throw to first baseman James Loney which allowed Phillies center fielder Shane Victorino to advance to second. The next pitch thrown by Derek Lowe was a fastball to the struggling Chase Utley who belted it to the right field bleachers to tie the game at 2-2. Dodgers manager Joe Torre stuck with Lowe for a couple more batters after that. Next up was Phillie's slugger Ryan Howard who grounded out, and following him was left fielder Pat Burrell who on the first pitch he saw hit a line drive home run into the left fielder bleachers just over the wall. That was the end of the night for Lowe, after failing to hold his teams 2-0 lead. The scoring was done after the sixth inning and the Phillies went on to hold the 3-2 lead until the end of the game. It was unfortionate that the Dodgers lost seeing that I am not a fan of the Phillies at all. The two teams play again today at four o'clock.