PHILADELPHIA -- For the first time this October, the Dodgers showered and dressed in silence.
In the middle of a clubhouse that was suddenly devoid of music, Rafael Furcal shook his head.
"This won't be easy to forget," Furcal said. "We lost a game because of it."
The Dodgers shortstop was talking about how he sailed the ball over the head of first baseman James Loney when he tried to throw out Shane Victorino in the sixth inning.
The error started a three-run inning for the Philadelphia Phillies, who erased a two-run deficit on home runs by Chase Utley and Pat Burrell and handed the Dodgers a 3-2 loss in Game 1 of the National League Championship Series on Thursday in front of 45,839 fans at Citizens Bank Park.
"I told you they're explosive," said Dodgers third base coach Larry Bowa, who managed several of these Phillies in his four-year tenure in Philadelphia.
"You can't give them more than three outs. We gave them an out."
The game unraveled in what felt like an instant for the Dodgers and their starter, Derek Lowe, who, like Furcal, pointed the finger of blame at himself.
With no one out and Victorino standing on second, Lowe delivered a first-pitch sinker to Utley that didn't sink and was looped over the right-field wall of the diminutive ballpark.
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"I knew he was going to swing," Lowe said.
"Sometimes it's better to just throw a non-competitive pitch. My instincts were right."
Two batters later, Lowe made a similar pitch to Burrell and received a similar punishment.
Manny Ramirez knew where the ball was headed, barely moving as he watched the ball sail into the stands in left, where towel-waving fans celebrated the Phillies taking a 3-2 lead.
Would those have been home runs at Dodger Stadium?
"I would say Utley's, it's not," Lowe said.
Burrell's?
"Probably not either," said Lowe, who pitched 5 1/3 innings. "But so what? It doesn't matter. We're playing in the same park, too."
For Lowe, who was 5-0 with a 0.85 earned-run average in his last seven starts, the loss was his first since Aug. 26.
For Furcal, the error was the first he had made since being activated from the 60-day disabled list on Sept. 24. Furcal, who was out for 4 1/2 months because of a back problem that ultimately required surgery, said that because he was conscious of Victorino's speed, he rushed to throw the ball. In doing so, he lost his grip.
