As the intent of the Dodgers fans who threw two baseballs at San Diego Padres fielder Jurickson Profar and a water bottle, beer can and other debris at right fielder Fernando Tatis Jr. pitched into the seventh inning during an extended layoff, intimidating the visiting team on Sunday evening backfired spectacularly.

“I mean, we scored, what, six runs after that? Five? Four? I don’t know,” Padres third baseman Manny Machado said with a grin. ‘There were six? Yes, maybe it woke us up.”

The Padres had a three-run lead in Game 2 of the National League Division Series when play was stopped and officials worked with stadium safety officials to lower the temperature among several unruly fans in the left and right field corners.

When play finally resumed, San Diego right-hander Yu Darvish, who had spent much of the delay behind the mound at Dodger Stadium, retired three batters in a row after issuing a walk in the bottom of the seventh, thus ended a seven-inning, three-inning run. hit gem in which he held red-hot Dodgers slugger Shohei Ohtani hitless in three at-bats.

The Padres then hit four of the six home runs they hit Sunday night in the final two innings, Jackson Merrill and Xander Bogaerts hitting back-to-back shots in a three-run eighth and Kyle Higashioka and Fernando Tatis Jr. a three-run ninth as the Padres pulled away for a 10-2 victory.

Not only did the blowout even win the best-of-five series by one game apiece, it also provided a significant shift to the Padres, who return to Petco Park for Games 3 and 4 and will have a decisive pitching advantage in Game 3, when their ace, right-hander Michael King, opposes Dodgers’ diminished right-hander Walker Buehler.

“What I got out of this,” Padres manager Mike Shildt said, “is we got a bunch of guys who showed up in front of a big, hostile crowd with stuff being thrown at them and said, ‘We’re going to talk.’ with our game; we are not going backwards; we are going to take our game to the next level; we will be together and take care of business.”

To be honest, the Padres talked as much with their mouths as they did with their bats. Machado and Dodgers starter Jack Flaherty jawed at each other several times, with Flaherty first throwing an expletive at the Padres star after striking out Machado in the top of the sixth.

The two then barked at each other in the bottom of the sixth inning after Flaherty accused Machado of throwing a ball into the Dodgers’ dugout between innings. Machado was also angry at Flaherty for hitting Tatis with a 90 mph sinker to start the sixth.

Fernando Tatis Jr. from San Diego celebrates after hitting a two-run home run in the ninth inning on Sunday.

(Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times)

Tatis, who has a regular-season average of .625 (five for eight) off Flaherty with one homer and three doubles, hit a solo homer to left field off Flaherty in the first inning on Sunday night and a double from 111.7 yd/ you to the left in the second inning. third.

“I was excited after I knocked Manny out — it’s a big spot in the playoffs, that’s what happens, oh well,” Flaherty said, adding that the ball was thrown into the Dodgers dugout: “Everybody catches me and him. I went for it, but I was there in front of my team. I wasn’t going to go to him.”

Machado claimed he wasn’t trying to bash the Dodgers.

“I throw balls in both dugouts all the time — they have foul balls, you throw the ball back there,” Machado said. “But if you try to hit our best hitter… you can’t get him out, don’t hit him, right? They have the best player in the game in Ohtani. We’re not trying to hit Ohtani. We’re trying to get him out. Don’t go out and try to hit my husband.

Flaherty said the throw that hit Tatis in the left thigh was not intentional.

Dodgers third baseman Manny Machado talks to the umpires during the sixth inning on Sunday.

(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

“Look, I missed in the first inning and threw the ball over the middle – I wasn’t going to miss the plate again,” Flaherty said. “I have no reason to hit someone there who starts the sixth. As good as he was, we were in the game, I go in for effect, he didn’t get out of the way and it hit him.

“I wasn’t trying to start the inning by hitting him. That makes no sense whatsoever. I haven’t been near his head. I just tried to push someone off the plate, and he wouldn’t get out of the way. Sometimes that happens, and they were angry about it.”

Machado did not believe Flaherty’s explanation.

“You hit Tatis with a sinker after he was two on two with a bomb and a double off him?” Machado said. “I mean, I’ll let you decide.”

Tatis, who celebrated his ninth-inning home run with an epic bat flip, a long look into his dugout and a purposeful trot around the bases, took a more diplomatic approach than Machado when asked about the pitch that hit him.

“I know my guys have my back all the time, and everyone saw it tonight,” he said. “But we play baseball. It’s too early in the game to do things like that. It’s too important a series to throw at guys. That’s what my baseball IQ tells me.

“When he hit me, he just gave me more energy. My boys gave me more energy. And I know from that moment on, we would just embrace that moment and use that energy to play baseball like we did tonight.