PHILADELPHIA | It didn&#8217;t take much Thursday night to snap some life into the slumbering Philadelphia Phillies. Just one bad throw by Los Angeles shortstop Rafael Furcal.</p><p>Two swings later, the Phillies turned a two-run deficit into a one-run lead &#8212; and they held on from there for a 3-2 victory in the first game of the National League Championship Series at Citizens Bank Park.</p><p>Chase Utley and Pat Burrell followed Furcal&#8217;s error with homers against Dodgers starter Derek Lowe, who was in lockdown mode before everything slipped away.</p><p>Utley tied the game with a two-run blast to right on Lowe&#8217;s first pitch after the error. Burrell produced the game-winner with a one-out drive to left.</p><p>It was a lightning quick, and it changed everything.</p><p>&#8220;The error was good for us,&#8221; Utley said. &#8220;The home run that I hit got us back in the game. But the big home run of the night, in my opinion, was Pat&#8217;s home run to give us the lead.&#8221;</p><p>Burrell&#8217;s blast followed a two-homer game Sunday in the 6-2 clincher against Milwaukee in the previous series.</p><p>&#8220;Pat is seeing the ball better,&#8221; manager Charlie Manuel said. &#8220;He&#8217;s staying back behind the ball and driving the ball.&#8221;</p><p>But Manuel pointed to the error as the catalyst.</p><p>&#8220;(Lowe) didn&#8217;t bring many balls above the knees,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Everything was down, and he did a tremendous job. When Furcal threw the ball away at first, I felt like that was kind of a turn for us.&#8221;</p><p>Phillies right-hander Cole Hamels got the victory by protecting the lead with a scoreless seventh before relievers Ryan Madson and Brad Lidge rolled through the final two innings.</p><p>The best-of-seven series continues at 3:35 this afternoon, and then the teams get a one-day break before resuming Sunday in Los Angeles.</p><p>The American League Championship Series between the Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays opens tonight in St. Petersburg, Fla. The World Series begins Oct. 22 in the AL city.</p><p>Hamels yielded single runs in the first and fourth but stayed away from major trouble. He allowed six hits while striking out eight and walking two.</p><p>&#8220;The way the team&#8217;s been playing,&#8221; Hamels said, &#8220;I had confidence (in the offense) and knew that even if I do put them down early, we&#8217;ll come back.&#8221;</p><p>Even so, it was a stunning turnabout.</p><p>Lowe and Dodgers were in command before Furcal began the sixth inning by turning Shane Victorino&#8217;s routine leadoff grounder into a two-base throwing error.</p><p>The ball sailed to the right of first baseman James Loney, who failed to corral the throw even after coming off the base.</p><p>&#8220;At that point,&#8221; Utley said, &#8220;I was trying to get him over. No matter what, I was getting him over to third base. I squared a sinker up, and it went over the fence.</p><p>&#8220;For Derek Lowe, it was up, but it really wasn&#8217;t that bad of a pitch.&#8221;</p><p>Maybe not, but Lowe stomped in frustration near the third-base line, where he had positioned himself in the event the ball failed to clear the wall.</p><p>Lowe&#8217;s frustration prompted a calm-down visit from pitching coach Rick Honeycutt. Lowe responded by retiring Ryan Howard on a grounder to first, but Burrell rocketed a 3-1 fastball into the left-field seats.</p><p>This time, Lowe simply stretched his arms and hitched his pants as the crowd of 45,839 went to full roar. But he was done. Manager Joe Torre trudged to the mound after Burrell circled the bases and summoned Chan Ho Park.</p><p>&#8220;He was just mad at himself,&#8221; Torre said. &#8220;Flustered? That doesn&#8217;t match with him. I don&#8217;t think he got flustered or bothered by the error.&#8221;</p><p>Hamels came out throwing nothing but fastballs and, presumably, learned a lesson. Andre Ethier ripped a one-out double into the left-center gap, and Manny Ramirez followed with a drive off the angled wall in center field for another double.</p><p>The Dodgers led 1-0.</p><p>&#8220;I guess that&#8217;s the farthest a ball can be hit and not be out of the yard,&#8221; Hamels said.</p><p>The Dodgers stretched their lead to 2-0 on Blake DeWitt&#8217;s sacrifice fly in the fourth. It stayed that way until Furcal&#8217;s error changed everything.