MLB teamPat Burrell connected on a three-run blast in the third inning and added a solo shot in the eighth, helping the Philadelphia Phillies to a 6-2 win to eliminate the Milwaukee Brewers in National League playoff action on Sunday afternoon.

Philadelphia hit four home runs in the final game of the series.

"I couldn't be more thrilled. You know, I don't think it's actually sunk in all that much yet," said Burrell, who has been with the Phillies MLB team since they drafted him in 1998.

Jimmy Rollins went deep in the first off Milwaukee starter Jeff Suppan, while Jayson Werth immediately followed Burrell's third-inning long ball with one of his own. Philadelphia claims the best-of-five National League division series 3-1.

The Phillies MLB team advance to face the Los Angeles Dodgers, with the winner of that series the NL representative in the World Series.

"I like our chances," Phillies manager Charlie Manuel said Sunday after Philadelphia clinched its first trip to the NLCS since 1993. "I think we can hold our own with them. Actually, I think we can beat anybody in the National League, really."

The series will begin Thursday in Philadelphia.

The Dodgers and Phillies MLB team have met for the NL pennant three times before. Los Angeles won in 1977 and '78, while the Phillies took the flag in 1983.

The clubs split eight games this season, with each sweeping a four-game set in their own ballpark. However, the Phillies outscored the Dodgers 43-27 in those matchups.

"It's going to be a good series, but I think we can score runs on them," Manuel said. "The way our guys pitch … I don't see no reason in the world why we can't stay right with them."

Starter Joe Blanton (1-0) cruised for six innings for the Phillies. At one point, Blanton set aside 10 consecutive batters reports all team sports information.

He struck out seven and walked one, departing at the beginning of the seventh inning.

Prince Fielder hit a towering blast to right off Blanton to get Milwaukee MLB team on the board in the seventh. J.J. Hardy followed with a single, but reliever Ryan Madson replaced Blanton and got three consecutive outs.

Ryan Braun added an RBI single in the eighth to make it 5-2, but Fielder lined out to first with Braun aboard.

Philadelphia reliever Brad Lidge induced catcher Jason Kendall to ground out to Rollins to end the game.