Los Angeles (AFP) – Fans threw baseballs Heading toward San Diego outfielder Jurickson Profar left and then threw a garbage that caused a long delay before the Padres beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 10-2 on Sunday night to even the NL Division Series at one game.
Yu Darvish limited the Dodgers’ powerful offense to one run and three hits over seven innings and Fernando Tatis Jr. went deep with two runs as the Padres tied the postseason record of six homers.
David Peralta and Jackson Merrill each hit doubles, and Xander Bogaerts and Kyle Higashioka were limited to singles. At 21 years old, Merrill became the youngest Padres player to homer in a postseason.
“Six of them are a special treat for us,” Merrill said.
A delay midway through the seventh inning led to a 12-minute gap between pitches and occurred when two balls were thrown from the stands in Profar’s direction. He chased one of them but the security officer got to him first. Trash was strewn on the warning track near the Padres’ bullpen.
“I feel like when the ball crossed the goal line, when they started throwing things on the field,” Tatis said. “I felt like this shouldn’t happen in a big league game.”
There was sustained booing by the crowd of 54,119 – the largest at Dodger Stadium this season.
“The bear had been poked for a while. It had been poked in previous years and decades,” Merrill said. “We finally got the firepower, and we finally got the team to take it to them. They are a good team. I like the way they play. They give us a fight every time. They don’t stop.”
Security rushed the field as Padres manager Mike Shildt and his team huddled in shallow left. The refereeing staff joined them. It appears that security was trying to identify potential perpetrators in the crowd.
“We were looking for a higher security presence in the left corner to ensure this behavior didn’t continue, and to make sure that if anyone threw anything at me they would be immediately identified and taken off the court,” crew chief Dan Bellino told a pool reporter.
The Dodgers did not immediately respond when asked if there had been any arrests.
Manny Machado gathered his teammates in the dugout to reinforce them before the match resumed.
The Dodgers have lost four straight games in the second and seven of their last eight playoff games.
The best-of-five series moves to San Diego on Tuesday.
Dodgers outfielder Jack Flaherty hit Tatis with a pitch in the sixth inning, and Profar exchanged words with Dodgers catcher Will Smith.
“There’s a lot of important series that can’t be pitched to guys,” Tatis said. “When he hit me, it gave me more energy. My kids gave me more energy.
The Dodgers thought they had it tied in the bottom of the first. Mookie Betts hit a deep fly to the corner and left field umpire Adrian Johnson circled his arm to signal a home run.
but Profar’s killer Fan’s arms outstretched, reeling in the ball on the strap of his glove. He barely reacted to his stunning fist, jumping far back as he stared at the stunned fans.
“That was funny,” Merrill said of Profar trolling the crowd. “He’s having fun. He’s been playing like a little kid and I love it.”
Later, there were verbal exchanges between the fans and Profar.
Dodgers Lost first baseman Freddie Freemanwho left after five rounds suffering from a sprained right ankle. He hit and flew in two at-bats. Freeman was injured on September 26 and struggled to be healthy enough to make the playoffs.
Just like in Game 1, the Padres quickly took a 3-0 lead. Tatis went deep in the first off Flaherty and the former Dodger Peralta added a two-run shot in the second.
Darvish struck out three and walked two against his former team. He shut down his Japanese teammate Shohei Ohtani, who hit and hit his friend twice.
“I was trying to see how he was reacting to some of the pitches I was throwing,” Darwish said through a translator. “Besides, I was trying to keep him off balance by holding on a little longer. I think it worked well.”
Ohtani finished 0-for-4 with another hit. Mookie Betts was hitless for the sixth straight game.
Pitching not far from where he grew up in Burbank, Flaherty gave up four runs and five hits in 5 1/3 innings, becoming the first Dodgers pitcher to reach the sixth inning of a postseason game since Max Scherzer in 2021.
Max Muncy homered for the Dodgers in the ninth.
the next
RHP Walker Buehler will start for the Dodgers in Game 3 and RHP Michael King will go to the Padres. King was dominant against Atlanta in the NL Wild Card Series, striking out 12 in seven scoreless innings. King has faced the Dodgers four times this season, throwing 12 innings of shutout ball in two of the outings while getting pinch-hit in the other two.
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