I have a little confession to make. Sunday afternoon, I was plotting the idea of making the Dodgers' three-game series with Philadelphia that starts tonight into a mini-National League Championship Series showdown — in my mind.Though I basically gave up hope for the Dodgers' reaching the playoffs weeks and weeks ago, I was thinking that I might give the series with the Phillies some actual meaning. The rationale? Los Angeles had won 10 of 15 games to eliminate exactly one-third of its 13 1/2-game deficit in the NL West.With Clayton Kershaw on the mound against Arizona and San Francisco playing the Phillies, there was a decent chance that the Dodgers would close the divisional gap to eight games with eight weeks to go.If the Dodgers won the series from the Phillies, that would