Dodgers-Padres match delayed after baseballs thrown at player

The San Diego Padres' play-off lucifer with the Los Angeles Dodgers was stopped for astir 10 minutes aft supporters threw baseballs and brew astatine a player.

Game 2 of the National League Division Series was delayed successful the seventh innings erstwhile Padres' Jurickson Profar was subjected to maltreatment from Dodgers fans.

Profar riled supporters astatine the Dodger Stadium erstwhile helium caught Mookie Betts' deed by leaning implicit the advertizing boards and celebrating.

The 31-year-old hopped distant with the shot successful manus and maintained eye-contact with the location crowd.

Tensions threatened to spill implicit successful the sixth innings erstwhile Dodgers pitcher Jack Flaherty and Padres baseman Manny Machado were embroiled successful an aggravated exchange.

Machado accused Flaherty of intentionally body-shotting batter Fernando Tatis with his pitch, known arsenic 'plunking'.

The incidental stoked choler amongst the location assemblage and the crippled was stopped successful the seventh innings erstwhile a instrumentality hurled a shot successful Profar's direction. As Profar went to notify the umpire, different was thrown astatine him.

Profar was escorted distant from the location fans by information and the Padres outfield players gathered unneurotic arsenic 1 but, aft yet dispersing, Dodgers instrumentality past threw brew astatine Profar.

“There’s a batch to say,” said Dodgers starting pitcher Flaherty.

“First is that the fans should ne'er get involved. There’s nary crushed ever to propulsion thing astatine players, nary substance what is going on."

Tatis said: "Man it was decidedly chaotic retired there, but astatine the aforesaid clip it's a bully situation for baseball.

"People get carried distant a small spot with their emotions, but it's a bully backmost and forth. At the extremity of the time it's a show."

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said: "I've seen implicit a 1000 games present - good implicit a 1000 games successful a ballpark - and I've ne'er seen thing similar that."

The Padres won crippled 2 10-2, levelling the best-of-five bid astatine 1 crippled apiece.

They big the adjacent 2 matches successful San Diego.