by Jessica Kwong

AP photo: Starter Mandison Bumgarner of the San Francisco Giants delivers a pitch to the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium during Tuesday night’s series opener

 LOS ANGELES – Things didn’t go the way the San Francisco Giants wanted Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium, as they lost 9-4 and allowed their rival to gain a two-game lead over them to top the NL West.

 The runaway game for the Los Angeles Dodgers came unexpected with Madison Bumgarner starting on the mound. He allowed a season-high five runs on nine hits in 5 innings while striking out seven and issuing one walk.

 “Nobody’s tougher than Bum and they just did a good job tonight,” Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. “We lost the first game, we’ll put this behind us and I always encourage the guys to battle back and someone bats well and we’ll get back in the game.”

 The Dodgers took the lead early on. Justin Turner singled on a ground ball to left fielder Angel Pagan allowing Corey Seager to score and give Los Angeles a 1-0 lead in the first inning.

 Then Rob Segedin hit a home run on a line drive to left center field in the second inning, bringing the Dodgers up 2-0.

 In the third inning, the Giants’ Angel Pagan singled on a line drive to center fielder Enrique Hernandez and Joe Panik scored, cutting the Dodgers’ lead to 2-1. Buster Posey also singled on a line drive to Hernandez and Denard Span scored, tying the game at 2-2.

 But Los Angeles gained a 3-2 lead later in the inning when Adrian Gonzalez hit a sacrifice fly to left fielder Pagan, allowing Seager to score. Bumgarner, who has gone 0-3 with a 5.40 ERA in his last four starts against the Dodgers, said he didn’t think Gonzalez and Seager

 “I feel like I made some pretty good pitches to them. The first one to Seager wasn’t very good but I don’t know, sometimes you’ve just got to give those guys credit,” Bumgarner said. “They get paid to hit the same way we get paid to pitch, so sometimes it’s just not going to go your way.”

 The Giants again tied the game, at 3-3, in the fifth inning when Brandon Belt doubled on a line drive to right fielder Segedin and Pagan scored.

 The Dodgers fought back right away. Gonzalez singled on a line drive to center fielder Span and Howie Kendrick and Seager scored, bringing Los Angeles up 5-3.

 Dodgers starting pitcher Kenta Maeda allowed three runs on six hits in five innings, while striking out four and issuing a season-high typing four walks.

 The Giants inched closer in the sixth inning when Ehire Adrianza singled on a line drive to second baseman Charile Culberson and Eduardo Nunez scored, cutting the Dodgers lead to 5-4.

 “We missed a lot of opportunities with guys on base and this happens,” Nunez said. “I think they are a really good team and they played really good baseball. We’re not playing the best we can right now.”

 But the Dodgers ran away with the game when Andrew Toles doubled on a line drive to center fielder Span and Chase Utley scored, and Hernandez singled on a ground ball to left fielder Pagan and put Los Angeles up 7-4.

 Toles extended Los Angeles’ lead in the eight inning with a homer on a line drive to right field that let Josh Reddick score.

 The Giants efforts to cut their rivals’ 9-4 lead came up short, as Span homered on a line drive to right field but Pagan popped out to shortstop Seager, sealing the game.

 San Francisco, in a slump since the All-Star break, has dropped seven of their last nine games and lost three in a row. They are 1-3 at Dodger Stadium this year.

 “Every series you go in, you hope you take the series, you hope to take the game you’re playing that day,” Bochy said. “It’s never going to change and it’s what we did  today and we got beat.”

 First pitch for the second in the three-game is Wednesday at 7:10 p.m starting for San Francisco Johnny Cueto (14-3) and for Los Angeles Rich Hill (9-3)