A testy four-game series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres culminated in a ninth-inning brawl Thursday, sparked by a Fernando Tatis Jr. hit-by-pitch. With the Dodgers down three runs in the eighth inning,

Benches cleared, Shohei Ohtani and Fernando Tatis Jr. were both hit by pitches and even the two managers got into it during another contentious affair between the Dodgers and Padres on Thursday night.

It took seven games over 11 days for the simmer to reach full boil. The Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres flashed playoff intensity in their long-awaited first two series of the season and went face-to-face,