Plaschke: Dodgers fans lose their cool and Dodgers lose their edge in series-tying debacle

Two baseballs flew down toward the San Diego Padres’ Jurickson Profar from the left-field corner stands, the gutless moves of two cowards.

The water bottles flew down toward the Padres’ Fernando Tatis Jr. from the right-field corner stands, the gutless moves of many cowards.

More than a game was lost Sunday night when the Padres equaled the National League division series at one game apiece with a 10-2 victory over the Dodgers .

An already tattered image was further damaged. An historically bad reputation was further stained. Anyone out there walking around town wearing a Dodger jersey today should be embarrassed.

On a national stage, a few bad actors among the largest Dodger Stadium crowd of the season only furthered the inaccurate and harmful narrative that Chavez Ravine is a place stocked with punks.

In a startling display for a game of this magnitude, a pack of sorry spectators caused the game to be stopped for nearly 10 minutes before the bottom of the seventh inning while a ball and bottles rained down on the field.

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