Phillies Take Their Party on the Road : Baseball: They score two runs in the seventh inning to beat the Dodgers, 7-5. Piazza hits homer.

When the Dodgers last saw the Philadelphia Phillies earlier this month, three of them were running the bases at 1:47 a.m. on a sweltering East Coast morning. The Phillies had spilled out of their dugout onto the field to congratulate Lenny Dykstra, whose ground-rule double had given them a victory in a 20-inning marathon.

It was a vision not soon forgotten by the Dodgers, who boarded a bus for New York, where they were scheduled to play a doubleheader later that day.

The vision the Dodgers carried home after Monday night’s 7-5 defeat by the Phillies at Dodger Stadium, even though it came after three hours instead of six hours of play, really wasn’t that different. The Dodgers came back to take the lead, 4-3, in the second inning and again to tie the score, 5-5, in the sixth, the latter on a solo home run into the left-field pavilion by Mike Piazza. But when all was said and done, the Phillies again were spilling out of their dugout and onto the field.

And again, as it was in Philadelphia, the Dodger need for another left-hander in the bullpen was made clear.

Omar Daal (1-3), the only left-hander on the Dodger pitching staff, has been struggling lately, and even though pitching coach Ron Perranoski worked with him before the game, Daal continued to falter, this time against left-handed batters.

Daal entered the game in relief of Pedro Astacio with two outs and the bases loaded in the sixth inning to face John Kruk. Daal walked Kruk, forcing in a run to give the Phillies a 5-4 lead.

In the seventh inning, Daal hung a curveball to Darren Daulton, who doubled. Jim Eisenreich and Milt Thompson followed with singles to put the Phillies ahead, 7-5.

“We had our opportunities, but we let them back in and didn’t capitalize on them when we needed to,” Eric Karros said.

Piazza, who hit his 19th home run, this one off Phillie reliever Roger Mason (1-7), was two for three, with a triple, home run and a walk, when he came to bat in the seventh inning with the bases loaded. But with two outs, Piazza flied out to right field against reliever Larry Andersen, ending the Dodger challenge.

“Andersen had some good pitches, and we can’t expect Mike to carry us everywhere,” Karros said. “Cory (Snyder) and I both had a chance. That’s not where the game was won or lost.”

There is one vision, though, that the Dodger organization might want to remember from the seventh inning. On the bases when Piazza came to bat were Dodger farm products--outfielder Raul Mondesi, who had singled to center field in his first major league at-bat, and Karros, who had drawn a walk off Andersen.

Eric Davis made sure nobody would overlook him Monday night, with clutch catches in left field.

“Whoa, what was he doing out there?” said Phillie manager Jim Fregosi. “He was catching everything, wasn’t he?”

The Phillies, trying to hold off the St. Louis Cardinals in the National League East, suffered a setback before the game when starting pitcher Ben Rivera bruised his right index finger while bunting. He was replaced by Mike Williams, normally a relief pitcher.

Dodger starter Pedro Astacio’s pitches were all over the place in the first two innings, either falling in the field or sailing outside the strike zone. Coupled with aggressive baserunning, the Phillies took a 3-0 lead with two runs in the first inning and another in the second.

The Dodgers came back in the the second inning with some timely hits and aggressive--if confusing--baserunning, moving ahead, 4-3.

With two outs, Jody Reed singled in Piazza, who had tripled. Mitch Webster, who had walked, moved to second.

Astacio singled in Webster, moving Reed to second. Brett Butler singled in Reed, moving Astacio to third.

With two outs and Jose Offerman at bat, Williams faked a pick-off throw to third base. Butler broke for second on a stolen base attempt, so Williams whirled and threw to Phillie shortstop Kevin Stocker.

Astacio broke for home and Stocker, ignoring Butler, threw to third baseman Dave Hollins to catch Astacio in a rundown. But Hollins’ throw home hit Astacio in the back, and he scored on the error to put the Dodgers ahead, 4-3.