Dodgers fans are losing their cool and Dodgers are losing their lead in the NLDS

Two baseballs flew from the left corner bleachers toward Jurickson Profar of the San Diego Padres, the despondent movements of two cowards.

The water bottles flew toward the Padres' Fernando Tatis Jr. from the right corner bleachers, the despondent movements of many cowards.

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

An already torn image was further damaged. A historically bad reputation has been further tarnished. Anyone out there walking around town today wearing a Dodger jersey should be ashamed of themselves.

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

For a game of this magnitude, it was a stunning feat that a crowd of sad spectators caused the game to be halted for nearly ten minutes before the end of the seventh inning as a ball and bottles rained onto the field.

Dodger fans had once again allowed the taunting, trumpeting Padres to get under their skin.

“It's a show, it's 'MLB The Show,' right?” Tatis said in an interview on Fox afterwards. “We gave them a show out there and it seemed like they were a little upset because the team was promoted. I mean, this is the playoffs, this is the environment we’re built for.”

To make matters worse, the Dodgers also let the Padres get under their skin, withering under a barrage of Padres' aggression on a night that saw the visitors hit six home runs, a stolen home run, and all sorts of celebrations throughout Dodger Stadium danced along with everything.

The Padres were cheesy, but that wasn't an excuse for Dodgers fans to be idiots.

The Padres were on offense, but that was no excuse for the Dodgers to back down behind the spotty pitching of Jack Flaherty and the impatient hitting of aging Padres starter Yu Darvish.

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

The best-of-five series now moves to Petco Park in San Diego, where the rowdy Padre fans are now ready for revenge thanks to Sunday's riots. They don't like the Dodgers down there. Now they will like them a lot less.

Not only will the Dodgers rumble down the 5 Freeway with the flat tires of abysmal pitching, but they could also be without Freddie Freeman, whose badly sprained ankle caused him to leave Sunday's game in the sixth inning.

Winning two of three games against an up-and-coming Padres team that suddenly has home-court advantage would be a tall order. What happened on Sunday will make it even more difficult.

“There are a lot of emotions, but the best part is that we control those emotions,” said Tatis, who hit two home runs. “If we take care of business the way we do today, if we keep showing up like this, man, there’s no limit to what we can do.”

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 this point. They outscored the Dodgers 6-1 in the final three innings.

Tatis said Machado preached, “Just stay focused, stay focused. “The only way they can beat us is when we lose control of ourselves, when we get defeated by our emotions.”

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 portray Padres as flawless heroes. In fact, they started it all.

In the first inning, Profar stormed into the left corner bleachers to steal a home run from Mookie Betts, then taunted the fans he had taken the ball from by turning toward the bleachers and dancing in their faces.

Things got worse in the fourth inning after Tatis lunged and caught a Freeman drive in right field. He then sarcastically introduced the profane chants of the fans in the right pavilion.

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

A few moments later, with Tatis and Profar on first and second, Machado struck, prompting Flaherty to seemingly shout profanities at Machado and order him to sit down, a taunt that led to heated shouts from both dugouts.

Flaherty was removed from the game after the strikeout, but that didn't quell the excitement as Flaherty stood on the edge of the dugout and continued to verbally argue with Machado at the end of the sixth.

To make matters worse, that pitch on Tatis' team continued to haunt the Dodgers after Flaherty left the game when he hit reliever Anthony Banda on a single by Jackson Merrill, giving the Padres a 4-1 lead that they never lost. Flaherty ended up giving up four runs in 5⅓ innings, not exactly the kind of shutdown performance they were expecting when they brought him home at the trade deadline, but on a night full of craziness, Roberts preferred to look on the bright side .

“Overall, I think he’s done a good job keeping us there,” Roberts said.

An inning later, after the seventh inning, chaos broke out as both Profar and Tatis were surrounded by security guards while public address announcer Todd Leitz pleaded for order.

The rest of the game passed without incident.

But in a series where Roberts pushed his team to strike first, the Padres fought back, and this matchup is just beginning.