Two teams came into this matchup on a hot streak, but the Philadelphia Phillies had the home-field advantage and ultimately managed to stop the Los Angeles Dodgers in their tracks. The crowd’s reaction at the end of the game was intense.

Heading into their first domestic road trip of the season, it had been 157 days since the Dodgers had to stomach a defeat that truly meant something. It was Game 4 of the World Series, when they fell

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Nick Castellanos hit a grand slam and Edmundo Sosa continued his productive start to the season as the Philadelphia Phillies nipped the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers 8-7 on Sunday in the rubber game of a three-game series.

Teoscar Hernandez drove in five runs and the Dodgers overcome an early 6-2 deficit. But Blake Treinen let it get away in the seventh inning and the Phillies took the series.

The Philadelphia Phillies will close a six-game homestand on Sunday afternoon by looking to take the rubber match in their three-game series against the Los Angeles Dodgers.

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Teoscar Hernández was a welcome break in the clouds for his team on a drizzly afternoon at Citizens Bank Park. But the respite he provided was fleeting, as the Dodgers narrowly dropped their first series of the season with an 8-7 loss to the Phillies on Sunday.

The Dodgers started their series with the Phillies with a perfect record, but pitching Tyler Glasnow and Blake Treinen run into problems in an 8-7 loss.