PHILADELPHIA — Shane Victorino tried to smile today, but the smile couldn't hide the redness in his eyes.

He had four RBIs and made a great catch in an 8-5 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 2 of the National League Championship Series at Citizens Bank Park. He came up big, just as he had come up big in Game 2 of the National League division series against the Milwaukee Brewers, when he hit the first grand slam in Phillies postseason history.

But the elation he felt as he congratulated his teammates on the field — the Phillies need just two more victories in the best-of-seven series to advance to their first World Series since 1993 — turned to sadness when he learned from his father after the game that his grandmother, Irene Victorino, had died. She was 82.

It added to a day already filled with mixed emotions as manager Charlie Manuel learned before the game his mother had died. June Manuel was 87.

"Charlie stayed strong, kept us all strong," Victorino said. "It's a tough time. Charlie just lost his mom. I just lost my grandmother. It's definitely an emotional time, but it's all about baseball right now. That's what we're focused on. Like I said, it's about baseball. I'm still smiling about that. We won the game. Maybe she helped me make the catch. Maybe Charlie's mom helped me make the catch."

Victorino knocked in two runs with a two-out single to left-center field in the second inning to hand the Phillies a 4-1 lead. He hit a two-out triple to right field in the third to score two more runs to make it 8-2.

Dodgers leftfielder Manny Ramirez hit a three-run home run off Phillies pitcher Brett Myers in the fourth inning to make it a three-run game. The Dodgers had runners at the corners with two outs in the seventh inning when Casey Blake crushed a ball to deep center field.

It looked like trouble, but Victorino leapt at the wall to make the catch to end the inning.

"I hope she was watching from above," Victorino said.

Manuel and Victorino boarded the team's charter flight to Los Angeles on Friday night. Funeral arrangements are pending for Manuel's mother, so it's unclear what his status is for Game 3 on Sunday and Game 4 on Monday at Dodger Stadium. Victorino said he wants to attend his grandmother's funeral in Hawaii. He said he hopes his family can schedule it so he can attend during a scheduled off day.

"I want to be there," he said. "But I want to be here for the team. I'm sure Charlie is the same way."

"I guess this is Black Friday, huh?" Myers said.

In a way, yes. But Victorino also preferred to think that the spirits of June Manuel and Irene Victorino helped the Phillies win Game 2.

He hopes they're with them the rest of the series. Beating the Dodgers in Los Angeles will not be easy. The Dodgers swept the Phillies in a four-game series there in August.

"The biggest thing we need to do is just not change," said closer Brad Lidge, who picked up his second save of the NLCS. "If you start thinking ahead, then you get in trouble in this game. I think one thing that's helping us is that we know how difficult the Dodgers are in LA. Understanding that is really helping us approach Game 3 with a one-game attitude. We understand they're going to be playing with extreme urgency, and we need to do the same."

"It's definitely an emotional day," Victorino said. "But at the end of the day it's about winning. It's about trying to get to our goal and to win the World Series."