Two baseballs flew from the corner stands in left field at Jurickson Profar of the San Diego Padres, the dastardly moves of two cowards.

Numerous water bottles flew from the corner stands in the right corner at the Padres’ Fernando Tatis Jr., the dastardly moves of many cowards.

More than one game was lost on Sunday night as the Padres tied the National League Division Series lead at one game apiece with a 10-2 victory over the Dodgers.

An already torn statue was further damaged. A historically bad reputation was further tarnished. Anyone walking around town in a Dodger jersey today should be ashamed of themselves.

Nationally, a few bad actors among the largest Dodger Stadium crowd of the season only furthered the damaging narrative that Chavez Ravine is a place full of punks.

In a surprising display for a game of this magnitude, a group of mournful spectators caused the game to be stopped almost ten minutes before the bottom of the seventh inning as balls and bottles rained onto the field.

“I’ve seen over a thousand games here, over a thousand games in this stadium, and I’ve never seen anything like it,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “So there’s obviously a lot of emotions and things like that. But that is something that should never happen.”

The Dodger fans had once again let the taunting, preening Padres get under their skin.

“Dodger fans just weren’t happy,” Tatis said. “Obviously they lose the game, and there’s a lot of exchanging back and forth. What can I say? I wish they could control their emotions a little more.”

To make matters worse, the Dodgers also let the Padres get under their skin, withering under a barrage of Padres aggressiveness on a night when the visitors danced all over Dodger Stadium with six home runs, a stolen home run and all kinds of celebration. guide it all.

“That’s one you just want to wash away and use the next day,” Roberts said.

The Padres were insipid, but that was no excuse for Dodgers fans to be idiots. Their actions couldn’t possibly have turned the Padres’ bad actors into the good ones.

“It was a bunch of guys who appeared in front of a large, hostile crowd with stuff being thrown at them and said, ‘We’re going to talk about our play; we are not going backwards; we are going to take our game to the next level; we’re going to be together; and we’re going to take care of business,” Padres manager Mike Shildt said.

The Padres were on the attack, but that was no excuse for the Dodgers to retreat behind spotty pitching from Jack Flaherty and impatient hitting against aging Padres starter Yu Darvish. They turned a faltering Padres team into winners.

“It was ugly,” Roberts said. “It was ugly.”

The best-of-five series now moves to San Diego’s Petco Park where, thanks to Sunday’s unrest, the rowdy Padre fans will now be ready to exact their revenge. They don’t like the Dodgers down there. Now they’ll like them a lot less.

“I know we’re about to go back to San Diego with a very, very loud, raucous, aggressive, hungry crowd that’s going to be super excited and going to get after it,” Shildt said. “But I also know we’ll stay classy, ​​San Diego.”

Not only will the Dodgers be ramming down the 5 Freeway on the flattened tires of poor starting pitching, but they could also be without Freddie Freeman, whose badly sprained ankle forced him to leave Sunday’s game in the sixth inning.

Two out of three wins against a rising Padres team that suddenly has home field advantage would already be a tough task. What happened on Sunday will make it even more difficult.

After the safety break in the seventh inning, Manny Machado led the Padres in what appeared to be an emotional impromptu team meeting in their dugout. They were leading 4-1 at the time. In the last three innings they defeated the Dodgers 6-1.

“Just regroup, resettle,” Tatis said of the meeting. “The game was on our side. We know what we are capable of. And man, it just reminded us of who we really are as a group and how crazy we can make a place crazy. That was all that mattered.”

San Diego Padres third baseman Manny Machado yells at Dodgers players in the dugout during Sunday’s game.

(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

When retelling Game 2, it’s important not to view Padres as flawless heroes. In fact, they all started it.

In the first inning, Profar charged into the corner benches in left field and stole a home run from Mookie Betts. Ironically, at one point when it would have been good for Dodger fans to be aggressive, they turned cautious by allowing Profar to make the catch. Profar then taunted those fans by looking into the stands and dancing in their faces.

Things got worse in the fourth inning after Tatis made a lunging catch on a Freeman drive to right field. He then sarcastically led the profane chants of fans in the right field pavilion.

The bad blood reached a boiling point in the sixth inning when Flaherty hit Tatis in the side, prompting a look from the boisterous right fielder and words from Profar.

Moments later, with Tatis and Profar on first and second base, Machado struck out, after which Flaherty appeared to shout a profane taunt at him that led to shouts from both dugouts.

Flaherty was removed from the game after the strikeout, but that didn’t stop the jaws from smothering as Flaherty stood at the edge of the dugout and continued to verbally spar with Machado throughout the bottom of the sixth.

An inning later, after the seventh inning, chaos erupted as both Profar and Tatis were surrounded by security guards as announcer Todd Leitz begged for order.

The rest of the match passed without incident.

But in a series where Roberts urged his team to throw the first punch, the Padres have struck back and beaten the Dodger fans badly, and this dance is just beginning.