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- Updated: September 20, 2016
LOS ANGELES — The scene changed but the result remained the same for the San Francisco Giants, who squandered another ninth-inning lead as the Los Angeles Dodgers prevailed Monday night, 2-1, on Adrian Gonzalez’s walk-off double.
The outcome lengthened the Dodgers’ National League West lead over the second-place Giants to six games. San Francisco remained a game behind the Mets and fell into a tie with St. Louis for second place in the Wild Card standings.
“Baseball’s one of those things where bonds are forged through adversity,” Giants right fielder Hunter Pence said after San Francisco endured its ninth loss of the season when leading after eight innings, “and we’ve been through quite a bit of it this season.”
The Giants held a 1-0 edge entering the ninth, which Andrew Toles christened for Los Angeles with a pinch-hit single off Derek Law. Facing Javier Lopez, Corey Seager singled Toles to third on a ball that diving second baseman Joe Panik nearly corralled. Asked if he initially thought that Seager’s hit was a double-play grounder, Lopez replied, “No doubt. It seems like it’s a matter of inches as of late.”
In came Hunter Strickland, who yielded Justin Turner’s RBI single. Gonzalez then decided matters with a drive to deep right that Pence couldn’t quite grab.
“I thought I had it. That’s why I was a little discombobulated,” Pence said. “I had to go back to see how I missed it. I thought it was in my glove. It’s definitely a play I could have made, should have made.”
Before all the drama came more drama, as Yasiel Puig and Madison Bumgarner got into it again as they argued and shoved at the end of the seventh inning. And before that drama came what many fans had likely bought tickets and tuned in for: Clayton Kershaw facing Bumgarner in another battle of NL West aces.
Despite the Puig confrontation, Bumgarner came away with the better night, striking out 10 in seven scoreless innings and allowing just one hit. Kershaw, making his third start since …
