LOS ANGELES — Howie Kendrick, Yasmani Grandal and Justin Turner homered, and the Los Angeles Dodgers pulled into a first-place tie atop the National League West after a 9-3 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium.
The Dodgers (64-49) won their fourth straight to match the San Francisco Giants for the division lead. The Phillies (52-63) lost for the third time in four games.
Kendrick drove in a game-high three runs, while Grandal homered for the second night in a row.
Los Angeles starter Kenta Maeda (11-7) allowed three runs on six hits with four strikeouts and two walks in five innings. Maeda also doubled and scored a run.
Three Dodgers relievers combined to finish up with four shutout innings.
Phillies starter Vince Velasquez was shelled for nine runs on 11 hits, three of those homers, in 4 2/3 innings. Velasquez (8-4) struck out six and walked three.
Aaron Altherr took Maeda deep with a two-run shot to right-center for a 2-0 Philadelphia lead with one out in the second. It was Altherr’s third home run this season.
The Dodgers scored four runs in the bottom of the inning. Adrian Gonzalez led off with a double and scored on Joc Peterson’s single. Kendrick followed with a two-run homer to center for a 3-2 Los Angeles edge. The homer was Kendrick’s seventh of the season.
A run-scoring single by Corey Seager brought home Maeda, who doubled, for a 4-2 advantage.
Grandal launched a two-run blast — his 18th homer — to right in the third to increase the margin go 6-2.
Freddy Galvis hit his 10th home run in the fourth off Maeda, a solo shot to right to cut the deficit to three runs.
However, in the bottom of the inning, a two-run homer by Turner boosted the Dodgers’ lead to 8-3.
Kendrick’s RBI double in the fifth made it 9-3.
NOTES: Dodgers RF Yasiel Puig, demoted to Triple-A Oklahoma City on Aug. 2, will be disciplined internally after a video released on social media showed him and his new teammates enjoying a rowdy celebration after a loss at Iowa. … The Dodgers placed OF/1B Scott Van Slyke on the 15-day disabled list with right wrist irritation and recalled INF Chris Taylor from Oklahoma City. With the move, the Dodgers tied the 2012 Boston Red Sox for most players (27) going on the DL in the past 30 years. … Phillies RHP Zach Eflin went on the disabled list due to patellar tendinopathy in both knees a day after he allowed seven runs, including three homers, in a 9-4 defeat against the Dodgers. Philadelphia called up LHP Elvis Araujo. … Phillies RHP Jeremy Hellickson (9-7, 3.72 ERA) will face Dodgers LHP Scott Kazmir (9-5, 4.51 ERA) on Wednesday in the series finale.