Jimmy Rollins led off with a homer, Shane Victorino added a solo shot of his own, as the Phils took the final game of the series from the Dodgers behind a solid-yet-shaky start from Roy Oswalt.

The right-hander, making his 7th start as a Phillie, walked a season-high six batters over six and a third, while allowing only one hit and no runs. He struggled with his control for most of the afternoon, but held the Dodgers in check and didn’t allow a base hit until the sixth.

Meanwhile, the offense belted two homers for the second straight day, these coming off Clayton Kershaw, while they added some late insurance runs courtesy of Chase Utley, who recorded three doubles and two RBIs on the day.

Coming off a horrific homestand at the hands of the woeful Astros, the Phils bounced back to their late-season form and took five of six on the road, including a sweep against the San Diego Padres.

They have a layover in Colorado on Thursday, where they are making up a snow-out from May. Joe Blanton (6-6, 5.15), who has been rounding into form lately, takes on Jhoulys Chacin (7-9, 3.79).

Roy Oswalt (W, 10-13) allowed one hit in 6.1 shutout innings, while walking and striking out six.

Jimmy Rollins went 2 for 4 with a leadoff homer (7), three runs, and two RBIs.

Chase Utley went 3 for 5 with three doubles (18) and two RBIs.

Shane Victorino went 2 for 4 with a homer (16) and an RBI.

Clayton Kershaw (L, 11-9) allowed two runs on five hits over six innings. He walked two and struck out 11.

James Loney went 1 for 1 with an RBI and three walks.

The audio you will find embedded below contains a CLASSIC rant from the pride of Marple-Newtown Township and colorman for the Phillies, Chris Wheeler.

It was in the top of the seventh inning last night when Chase Utley hit a ball foul down the left field line headed towards fail territory. Dodgers LF Scott Podsednik tracked it down near the stands on the third base line and after catching it, tumbled over the railing and into the stands. It wasn’t the greatest play you’ll ever see, but impressive nonetheless. And I’m sure if you were an announcer for this game, you would certainly talk about the catch for a few moments and maybe even squeeze in a Jeter comparison or something.

Well, not Chris Wheeler.

After the play happened, Chris Wheeler immediately became fixated on this one guy in the crowd who was talking on his cell phone and didn’t even let it go as Podsednik was hitting the concrete mere feet in front of him. This angered Chris Wheeler. So he goes on for 2+ minutes about how incensed he is when he sees someone talking loudly on their cellular phones in public. At one point, Chris even says, “I know I’m wrong, and I’ll stop…” and then continues to talk about it for another 30 seconds.

It’s just classic Wheels, and if you know what’s good for ya, you’ll listen.

I’ll be honest with youse — I’m a fairly mellow guy who doesn’t really get too excited about seeing some Birdland shirts on TV anymore (believe me, for every 50x I see it, I might post one), but when I see the Birdland representation on the left coast, I get a little chubbed up.

Thanks, homey in the Senor Octurbre hoodie:

Oh, and did I mention we have some brand-new Birdland x The Fightins x ZWR x The Wire Mike Sweeney hugs for everyone shirts? Cause we do:

Ryan Howard hit his first home run since July 27th, Brian Schneider added a three run shot of his own, as the Phils took the second game of the series behind a truncated start from Kyle Kendrick, who lasted five innings while giving up four runs.

They kept pace with the Atlanta Braves to stay three behind in the division, while staying 1.5 games ahead of the San Francisco Giants in the Wild Card.

Roy Oswalt takes on Clayton Kershaw tomorrow in the rubber match of the series to bid farewell to the Left Coast and 10 PM start times.

Damn these left-coast games. Roy Halladay gave up a handful of bloops and three runs, Hiroki Kuroda made the offense look foolish, Rod Barajas hit a home run, the Phils were no-hit through eight and shutout for the 11th time this season. And some kid tossed a beach ball on the field. Kendrick tomorrow.  Good night.

This one is from The Fightins commenter TonyIsDynamic. Enjoy:

Check out the stylish Dallas Green-looking dude who was caught by the myPHL17 cameras yesterday during their Thirst Inning thing that they do. What a handsome fella:

Go shopping for your own Birdland x The Fightins shirt that might get you on TV HERE.