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Los Angeles Dodgers Manny Ramirez hits a three run home run off of Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Brett Myers (front) as catcher Carlos Ruiz (back) looks on during the fourth inning of Game 2 of Major League Baseball's NLCS playoff series in Philadelphia October 10, 2008. REUTERS/Bill Kostroun

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Philadelphia pitcher Brett Myers drove in three runs to boost the Phillies to an 8-5 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers Friday and a 2-0 lead in the National League Championship Series.

Myers went 3-for-3 with an RBI single in the second and a two-run single in the third, while center-fielder Shane Victorino delivered four runs on two hits.

Victorino also made a big defensive play, leaping at the wall to snare Casey Blake's bid for a three-run homer in the seventh.

The Phillies scored four runs in the second inning and four more in the third.

Right-hander Myers pitched five innings to register the win. Dodgers loser Chad Billingsley was charged with eight runs, seven of them earned, in 2 1/3 innings.

Manny Ramirez, who had a fastball fired behind his back in the first inning, slugged a three-run homer in the fourth before the Phillies' bullpen pitched four scoreless innings.

The best-of-seven series to determine the National League representative in the World Series shifts to Los Angeles for Game Three Sunday.

(Editing by Greg Stutchbury)