PHILADELPHIA – Cliff Lee dominated the Dodgers, Ryan Howard and Jayson Werth provided the big swings early and the Philadelphia Phillies cruised past Los Angeles 11-0 Sunday night for a 2-1 lead in the NL championship series.

Lee provided another brilliant playoff start, striking out 10 and allowing only three hits in eight innings.

Howard hustled for a triple and Werth homered as the Phillies took a 6-0 lead in the second inning. Howard has an RBI in all seven of Philadelphia's playoff games this year.

Coming off their most-lopsided win in postseason history, the defending World Series champion Phillies play Game 4 Monday night. Joe Blanton starts against the Dodgers' Randy Wolf.

Jimmy Rollins' RBI double in the second inning made it 5-0 and chased Hiroki Kuroda. While the Los Angeles pitchers struggled, Lee cruised.

With the series tied at 1, Game 3 began on a brisk 46-degree night with players wearing long sleeves. They left the sunscreen and the balmy, 90-degree temperatures behind at Dodger Stadium.

The Phillies brought their bats and rocked Kuroda, making his first start since Sept. 28.

Kuroda was unavailable for the division series against St. Louis because of a herniation in his cervical spine. He had already sat out two months with an oblique strain and another three weeks after he was struck by a line drive.

Shane Victorino, who exchanged heated words with Kuroda in last year's NLCS, singled to right and stole second. Chase Utley started to make up for two costly throwing errors in the first two games with a single, sending Victorino to third.

Known more for his mammoth homers than legging out extra-base hits, Howard ran out of the box on a shot into the right-field corner. His headfirst slide into third gave him his first career postseason triple and the Phillies a 2-0 lead.

Werth followed with a shot into the shrubs beyond the center-field wall for his first postseason homer of 2009 that sent the fans into a frenzy and made them forget about the chilly temperatures.

Rollins drove in Carlos Ruiz, who doubled to lead off the second inning. Scott Elbert relieved Kuroda and didn't fare any better.

He walked Victorino, threw a wild pitch, and walked Utley to load the bases. Howard's RBI groundout made it 6-0.

Exit Elbert, enter Chad Billingsley.

Utley's throwing woes surfaced in the fourth when he one-hopped a routine throw to first that Howard scooped to end the inning. Utley heard cheers in the fifth when he made a perfect throw to second base to erase Ramirez.

Lee picked up early where he left off in the division series. After going 1-0 and allowing two earned runs in 16 1-3 innings against Colorado, the left-hander again was in control.

Lee received plenty of run support. Pedro Feliz's RBI triple made it 7-0 and he scored on Carlos Ruiz's single in the fifth.

The Phillies beat the Dodgers last year in the NLCS in five games and went on to defeat Tampa Bay in the World Series.