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LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles Dodgers powered their way back to the top of the NL West on Tuesday night.Howie Kendrick, Yasmani Grandal and Justin Turner homered, and the Dodgers beat the Philadelphia Phillies 9-3 to tie the San Francisco Giants atop the division after being eight games back on June 26 -- the last time ace Clayton Kershaw pitched.Thats just a testament of hard work throughout the season, Kendrick said.The Giants lost 2-0 to the Miami Marlins earlier Tuesday to drop to 64-49. San Francisco had been alone in first place since breaking a tie with the Dodgers on May 15.Los Angeles is a season-high 15 games over .500 and has won four in a row despite a rash of pitcher injuries, including Kershaw, who is on the 60-day disabled list with a mild herniated disc.I think that obviously when you look at the standings, theres something to hang your hat on a little bit, manager Dave Roberts said. I think the picture is how were going about every day. Like I always say, the wins are a byproduct of our preparation and how were playing the game.Kenta Maeda (11-7) yielded six hits and three runs in five innings.Phillies right-hander Vince Velasquez (8-4) has not won in his last five starts. He gave up nine runs on 11 hits, including all three Dodgers homers.The mentality coming in here was to attack the hitters, said Velasquez, who grew up 30 miles east of Dodger Stadium in Pomona. I mislocated some pitches tonight and when you do that, they put them over the wall.They got the best of me tonight. Its a learning experience and I have to check the video and learn from this.Aaron Altherr put Philadelphia ahead 2-0 with a two-run homer in the second, but then Los Angeles scored four runs in its half of the inning.Joc Pederson drilled an RBI single, Kendrick smacked a two-run homer -- his seventh -- and Corey Seager followed with an RBI single. Kendrick got a third RBI with a double in the fifth.If you handle your business, youll be there at the end, Seager said. Its one of those things, you just have to keep going. Yeah, thats what we need. Keep winning games. Keep winning series.Grandal homered for the second night in a row -- this one a two-run shot -- in the third to extend his career-high homer total to 18 and his hitting streak to nine games.Grandal leads the NL with 12 home runs since June 30.Freddy Galvis belted his 10th homer in the fourth to cut it to 6-3, but Turners homer in the home half increased the lead to 8-3. Turners 21 homers are also a career high.The Dodgers currently have the second-best home record (37-21) in the NL this season behind the Cubs. Los Angeles improved to 20-10 against Philadelphia since 2012 and has beaten the Phillies four straight and six out of the last seven at Dodger Stadium.In the first two games of the series, the Dodgers have 24 hits, including seven home runs, and 18 runs. The series concludes with an afternoon game Wednesday.TRAINERS ROOMPhillies: RHP Zach Eflin was placed on the 15-day disabled list with patellar tendinopathy in both knees. Eflin, the losing pitcher in Monday nights 9-4 game, allowed seven runs and seven hits, including three homers. ... LHP Elvis Araujo was recalled from Triple-A Lehigh Valley. ... LHP Brett Oberholtzer was claimed off waivers by the Los Angeles Angels.Dodgers: OF Scott Van Slyke was placed on the disabled list Tuesday with right wrist irritation and IF Chris Taylor was recalled from Triple-A Oklahoma City. This is Van Slykes second trip to the DL after spending most of April and May there with lower back irritation. ... LHP Rich Hill and RHP Brandon McCarthy threw bullpen sessions on Tuesday and are on schedule to make their respective starts on Friday and Saturday.UP NEXTPhillies: RHP Jeremy Hellickson (9-7, 3.72) pitches Wednesday and is 4-1 in his last seven games with a 2.64 ERA.Dodgers: LHP Scott Kazmir (9-5, 4.51) pitches Wednesdays series finale. He went 5 1/3 innings against Boston on Aug. 5 and gave up five hits and five runs, including two homers. Custom Packers Jerseys . After slipping from the summit during the week, the Gunners overcame struggling Crystal Palace 2-0 on Sunday thanks to Alex Oxlade-Chamberlains second-half brace. Custom Packers Jersey China . Manuel was offered a position the day he was fired. He accepted earlier this week and the team made the announcement Friday. http://www.custompackersjersey.com/ . LOUIS -- Rookie Tavon Austin has missed another day of practice, lessening the odds hell be ready for the St. Cheap Packers Jerseys . 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BOSTON -- The NFL suspended New England Patriots defensive end Rob Ninkovich on Friday for the first four games of the regular season for violating the NFLs policy on performance enhancing substances.It is the latest blow to the Patriots, who will also be without quarterback Tom Brady the first four games as he serves a league-imposed suspension for his role in the Deflategate case.Like Brady, Ninkovich will not be eligible to return to the Patriots active roster until Oct. 3 following the teams game against the Buffalo Bills.The 32-year-old has not played this preseason after suffering a reported triceps injury during a joint training camp practice with the Saints on Aug. 9. He had returned to practice recently, but had only participated in light conditioning.Ninkovich was a defensive captain in 2015 and had 52 tackles and 6 1/2 sacks.More than his production, he has been New Englands ironman on defense, playing in 102 consecutive regular-season games. That is behind only Green Bays Julius Peppers and Indianapolis Kendall Langford, who have both played in 128 straigght games.ddddddddddddThe Patriots had already been making plans for Ninkovich to be out to start the regular season because of the triceps injury, and have gotten solid production out of free agent pickup Chris Long this preseason.Long started all four preseason games and is expected to start in the regular season, along with Jabaal Sheard.Ninkovich recently praised how well Long has caught on to the Patriots system, calling him a sponge since his arrival. He said sitting out with this injury has been particularly difficult after not missing a regular-season start the past six seasons.Its really hard, I havent had to deal with anything like this in a long time, Ninkovich said last week. So Im just trying to work as hard as I can, and do the only thing I know how to do, and thats try to work hard to get back.---AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and www.twitter.com/AP-NFL---Follow Kyle Hightower on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/khightower ' ' '