Dodgers relievers had pitched out of trouble all night until Jimmy Rollins clubbed a two-run double off closer Jonathan Broxton with two outs in the bottom of the ninth to give the Phillies a 5-4 win in Game 4 of the NL Championship Series.

What an electric finish.

What a dramatic win.

The Phils are one victory away from returning to the World Series.

A look at some of the key moments in the game:

The showdown

But he came through in the eighth inning last night against the Phillies' most dangerous hitter, Ryan Howard. With one out, two men on base and the Dodgers up by a run, Sherrill set up Howard with a pair of breaking balls, then fanned him on a high fastball.

Broxton came on and got Jayson Werth for the final out of the inning, preserving the lead. Broxton's fastball reached 100 m.p.h.

But Broxton imploded in the ninth. In a span of five pitches, he walked postseason nemesis Matt Stairs and hit Carlos Ruiz before Rollins lashed a 1-1 fastball (99 m.p.h.) to right-center for the win.

"Jimmy has a good, short swing and he can get to a fastball," manager Charlie Manuel said. "He got that one."

The Wolf Man returns

The mention of Wolf's name does not always inspire good feelings in the Phillies' front office.

Wolf spent eight seasons with the Phils before leaving for free agency after the 2006 season. He was one of the first and most vocal critics of the dimensions of Citizens Bank Park when it opened in 2004, and that never sat well with team officials.

Nonetheless, the Phils tried to re-sign Wolf before the 2007 season and again the following winter, but both times they were spurned by the lefthander, who wanted to pitch closer to his West Coast roots.

Wolf ticked off some Phillies officials before signing with San Diego for the 2008 season. Some Phils officials believe Wolf played them during negotiations.

When Wolf signed with San Diego, former Phils general manager Pat Gillick said it was a blessing in disguise.

"I talked to him last year and I talked to him this year, and I think he always makes some remarks about the park, which are really quite unfounded, I think," Gillick said in December 2007.

"It was a blessing in disguise. We went after him a couple of times. It didn't work out last year, and it didn't work out this year. So it's pretty evident that he doesn't want to play for our team. If somebody doesn't want to play and be part of the team, then maybe it's better he plays someplace else."

Ball three, down the middle

Howard found himself in a hitter's count with a little help from home-plate umpire Ted Barrett, who called Wolf's 2-1 pitch a ball, even though replays showed that it was over the heart of the plate.

There's a big different between 2-2 and 3-1, for both a pitcher and hitter. At 2-2, a pitcher is more likely to mix things up. At 3-1, odds favor his throwing a fastball, and the hitter knows that. See: Stairs in Game 4 of last year's NLCS.

A key inning: The sixth

Wolf walked Howard and was replaced by Ronald Belisario, who got Werth to hit into a fielder's choice for the second out as Utley scampered to third with the lefthanded hitting Ibanez due up.

In one of the game's pivotal moments, Dodgers manager Joe Torre brought in lefty Hong-Chih Kuo, who held lefties to a .152 batting average during the season, to face Ibanez.

Kuo threw Ibanez a first-pitch fastball and Ibanez lashed a sinking liner to left. Would it get down fast enough to be an RBI single? No. Manny Ramirez, usually a suspect defender, made arguably the play of the game (at least until Rollins' final swing) when he sprinted in and almost nonchalantly plucked the ball off his shoestrings for the third out.

Big, big outs

Everybody relax

Utley caused some angst when he made throwing errors in Games 1 and 2 and bounced a throw in Game 3, but, for now, he appears healed.

A series to forget