Philadelphia, PA -- (Sports Network) - Shane Victorino and the hot-hitting Brett Myers combined to drive in seven runs, as the Philadelphia Phillies downed the Los Angeles Dodgers, 8-5, in Game 2 of the National League Championship Series.

Myers (2-0) gave up five runs on six hits with four walks and six strikeouts over five innings to get the win for the Phillies, who lead the best-of-seven series two games to none. The right-hander came up huge at the plate, collecting three hits and three runs batted in. Myers had only four hits and one RBI during the regular season.

Brad Lidge worked out of trouble in the ninth to earn his second save of the series and fourth of the postseason.

Greg Dobbs went 2-for-3 and scored twice for the Phillies, who scored four times in both the second and third innings.

Philadelphia's Charlie Manuel managed with a heavy heart, learning that his mother, June, had passed away Friday morning. She was 87. After the game, Victorino also found out that his grandmother had passed away.

Manny Ramirez clubbed a three-run homer for the Dodgers, who left 11 men on base, including a pair of runners in the ninth.

Chad Billingsley (1-1) took the loss after he was rocked for eight runs -- seven earned -- on eight hits with three walks and five strikeouts in 2 1/3 innings. James McDonald allowed two hits and fanned five over 3 1/3 scoreless innings of relief.

The series shifts to Dodger Stadium for Game 3 on Sunday. Philadelphia will send 45-year-old Jamie Moyer to the mound and Los Angeles will counter with Hiroki Kuroda.

The Phillies trailed in the opener, but rallied on home runs by Chase Utley and Pat Burrell to win 3-2. Philadelphia jumped out to an 8-2 lead in Game 2, but Los Angeles closed the gap to three in the fourth on Ramirez's 27th career postseason home run, the most all-time in league history. With the bases vacant and two gone, Rafael Furcal struck out but advanced to first on a wild pitch. Russell Martin kept it going with a single and Ramirez, who tied Bernie Williams (41) for most games played in the outfield in LCS play, sent a pitch sailing into the flower bed beyond the wall in left field.

"I made a good pitch on him (Ramirez)," Myers said. "I felt like I made a good pitch. We had been pounding him in all series. I threw a pitch that was up and in and off the plate. And he's a good hitter. He makes adjustments. And he was able to do it. So it sounded like he got jammed a little bit, but it's one of those things."

J.C. Romero issued a two-out walk to Los Angeles' Matt Kemp in the seventh. Ryan Madson came on from the Philadelphia bullpen and promptly served up a base hit to Nomar Garciaparra, pinch-hitting for McDonald. Casey Blake then hit a deep fly ball, and Victorino made a leaping catch against the wall in center to preserve the three-run lead.

Madson worked a 1-2-3 eighth inning, striking out a pair, and handed the ball over to Lidge in the ninth. Lidge walked Ramirez to begin the frame, then fanned Andre Ethier. After James Loney drew a walk, Lidge struck out Kemp and Garciaparra, on three consecutive sliders, to end the game.

Los Angeles drew first blood in the top of the second. Myers allowed a grounder through the right side to Ethier and then a long line drive to Loney that bounced off the top of the wall in right for a double. After Kemp went down swinging, Blake DeWitt grounded out to score Ethier. Myers opted to intentionally walk Blake to bring up Billingsley, who ended the inning by lining out to Jayson Werth in right.

The bottom of the Phillies lineup then spearheaded a two-out, four-run surge in the home half. Dobbs reached on a broken-bat single to center to prolong the frame and Carlos Ruiz followed with an RBI double that rolled all the way to the wall in left-center. Myers, who put together a memorable at-bat against CC Sabathia in Game 2 of the NLDS, then punched a run-scoring single to center.

Jimmy Rollins continued the assault with a chopper back up the middle, and Kemp's fielding error allowed both runners to move into scoring position. Victorino then slapped a two-run single to center for a 4-1 Phillies lead.

"Well, I think the first inning was fine," said Los Angeles manager Joe Torre. "I mean, he (Billingsley) went through that part of the lineup and got away without getting hurt and then the second inning he gets the first two hitters out, the five and six guys, and then all of a sudden strange things happened. He gets ahead in two counts and wasn't able to put people away. And that may have unnerved him a little bit. And unfortunately, Myers did the job with the bat tonight."

The Dodgers got a run back in their next turn at the plate on Loney's RBI single and were bidding for more, but Myers fanned DeWitt to escape a bases- loaded jam.

Philadelphia tacked on four more runs in the bottom of the third. The Phillies loaded the bases with no outs on hits by Burrell and Werth and a free pass to Dobbs. Two batters later, Myers drove in a pair by ripping a single past a diving Loney at first. Chan Ho Park then replaced a rattled Billingsley and struck out Rollins before Victorino hit a two-run triple to right-center to give the Phillies an 8-2 lead.

Game Notes

These clubs are meeting in the LCS for the fourth time. The Dodgers won in 1977 and '78, while the Phils emerged victorious in 1983...Myers became the first Phillies pitcher ever to win Game 2 of two playoff series in the same season...Myers became the first pitcher in LCS history to collect three hits in a game and the first hurler since Atlanta's Tom Glavine to knock in three runs in a NLCS game (October 17, 1996)...Philadelphia is now the 19th team in NLCS history to jump out to a 2-0 lead in the series. Only two of the previous 18 teams went on to lose the series (1984 Cubs and 1985 Dodgers)...Rollins struck out four times...Philadelphia first baseman Ryan Howard went 0- for-4 with a walk. He's 2-for-19 in the playoffs...Burrell celebrated his 32nd birthday...Loney has now hit safely in each of his 12 career games at Citizens Bank Park...Ramirez became the fifth player in LCS history to hit a home run for three or more teams (Cleveland, Boston and Los Angeles)...Ramirez's three-run homer gave him a total of 27 career RBI in LCS play. He is now tied for second all-time with David Justice.