PHILADELPHIA — Back and forth they went, the Dodgers and Phillies, two of baseball’s better teams finishing up an early-season three-game set at Citizens Bank Park.

The Phillies won the first game; the Dodgers the second. Both games were low-scoring affairs. So it only made for both clubs’ bats to come alive in the series finale, where the conditions were cloudy, chilly and a little wet.

The Phillies put a six spot on the board in the bottom of the third with rain falling from the sky. Six straight hitters without an out started the inning. The sixth batter was Nick Castellanos, who launched a first-pitch fastball for a grand slam, giving the Phillies a 6-2 lead after they started the frame down 2-0.

The Phillies wouldn’t score again until the bottom of the seventh. Meanwhile, the Dodgers chipped away and chipped away.

Right fielder Teoscar Hernández led the charge. The Dodgers’ right fielder homered in the fourth — his second of the day — and doubled in the fifth to make it a 6-4 game.

LA eventually plated three runs in the seventh inning to re-take the lead.

Jordan Romano entered the game to start the seventh. Three batters later, Romano left the field with boos raining down on him. The right-hander, with his fastball velocity sitting lower than usual at 93-94 mph, didn’t record an out and allowed a run. The Dodgers were right back in the game.

Orion Kerkering entered after Romano was pulled. Kerkering tried his best to limit the damage. The Dodgers took the lead on a sac fly by Hernández — his fifth RBI of the afternoon — plus a Will Smith double that scored Mookie Betts. But the Phillies weren’t going down without a fight. They punched right back.

Bryce Harper flew a ball to center field to begin the bottom of the seventh. Andy Pages misread it. He got turned around. The ball dropped onto the outfield grass. Harper hustled into second base for a leadoff double.

Three batters later, the game was tied. Bryson Stott floated a ball into right field for a one-out single, scoring Harper and sending Max Kepler from first to third.

It was now Edmundo Sosa’s turn at the plate.

Sosa started the game at third base for Alec Bohm, who had a scheduled off day, according to manager Rob Thomson. After taking a high-and-tight fastball for ball three, Sosa hit a Blake Treinen sinker into the ground to third baseman Max Muncy.

Around the horn the Dodgers went. But Sosa, busting it down the line, beat Tommy Edman’s throw from second to first. Kepler scored. The Phillies had the lead again. They held onto it for good this time.

José Alvarado pitched a clean top of the ninth against the top of the Dodgers’ order, securing both an 8-7 victory and a series win for the Phillies.