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LAD@PHI: Treanor singles home Loney, puts Dodgers up

PHILADELPHIA --- Two hours before Thursday's series finale, Dodgers manager Don Mattingly was asked what his club had to do to have success off Phillies' left-hander Cole Hamels.

"The biggest key really is to hang with him," Mattingly said. "So our biggest key is probably going to be Aaron Harang."

Lo and behold, Harang was the difference in an 8-3 win, which completed the first four-game sweep in Philadelphia in club history. Harang, who is now 5-3 this season, earned his 100th career win, becoming the 35th active pitcher to accomplish the feat.

Harang hit a rough patch in the third inning, when the Phillies scored three runs. But he righted himself and completed six innings, with eight hits and three whiffs.

The Dodgers improved to a Major League-best 37-21, despite entering the sixth inning trailing, 3-1. After Elian Herrera walked to lead off the frame and Juan Rivera singled, James Loney hit a one-out single to plate a run. Tony Gwynn Jr. and Matt Treanor followed with two-out singles to push the Dodgers ahead by a score.

Hamels got things going for the Phillies in the third, with a rope single. He advanced to third on a base hit by Jimmy Rollins. With runners on the corners and one out, Hunter Pence hit a hard grounder to Herrera at third base. Hamels dashed home, and Herrera threw wide. Hamels scored, and Rollins moved to third, allowing him to score on a Ty Wigginton sacrifice fly. An RBI single by Mike Fontenot put the Dodgers in a 3-0 hole.

Jerry Hairston Jr. hit a sacrifice fly in the fourth to score the Dodgers' first run, scoring Herrera, who reached on an error and advanced to third on another error.

Los Angeles put the game out of reach in the ninth inning, scoring four runs off reliever Chad Qualls. Treanor led off with a single and moved to second on Bobby Abreu's single. Dee Gordon scored Treanor with a single, then Herrera reached on an error to load the bases. That brought up Andre Ethier, who entered in the eighth as a defensive sub. Ethier drove in two runs with a single that was originally ruled an error by John Mayberry. Herrera was thrown out at the plate on the play, but Ethier moved to third and scored on a single by Hairston.

Jake Kaplan is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.