LOS ANGELES — For 21 innings, the Phillies’ bats were silent in the National League Division Series.

They awoke, as did a few residents of East Los Angeles, to the sound of Kyle Schwarber’s bat Wednesday night.

Schwarber homered to lead off the third inning, and he added a two-run shot in the clinching five-run eighth to lead and keep the Phillies alive in the best-of-5 series.

Schwarber’s first home didn’t just tie the game at 1. It untied a lot of jangled nerves in the clubhouse.

“100 percent,” Trea Turner said. “I think I said yesterday we were missing the slug, missing the homer. And no better person to do it than him. I also thought, too, the at-bats right after that were great. Sometimes homers are rally killers, and to get those extra runs in that inning were big, and it starts

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