"Things are going so well for the Phillies that now they're calling their shots and laughing out loud when they make them.

On the bus ride from the team hotel to the ballpark late Tuesday afternoon, broadcaster Sarge Matthews and Cliff Lee were talking about how difficult it was to hit a ball completely out of Dodger Stadium, you know, over the roof of the outfield pavilion. Matthews told Lee that Willie Stargell (twice), Mike Piazza and Mark McGwire were the only guys to do it.

Lee listened to Sarge talk about the difficulty of the feat and said: "I'll do it tonight."

Lee didn't clear the pavilion roof. He didn't even hit it as far as Matt Stairs did in the 2008 National League Championship Series. But he did hit a home run into the right-field seats, and it was a big one, the difference-maker, in fact, in the Phillies' 2-1 win over the Dodgers.

"I was just joking when I said I'd do it," Lee said after pitching eight scoreless innings and striking out 10 for his 12th win. "I didn't hit it out of the stadium, but I did hit a home run."

The homer was Lee's second of the season in 53 at-bats. With the count 2-and-0 in the seventh inning, and his team ahead just 1-0, Lee was looking for something to drive from lefty Ted Lilly and he got it – an 81-mph changeup over the plate.

Lee has made his love of hitting and the NL style of play well known and he was practically giddy, smiling and laughing, as he reached the Phillies' dugout after his home run. He even made a gesture as if to wipe off his hands as he reached the dugout.

What was that all about?

"I was just messing with KK," he said, referring to teammate Kyle Kendrick."