By Morris Phillips

SAN FRANCISCO– The rain finally stopped, play resumed, the runs came steadily–first from the Giants, then the Dodgers–and in the end, at 2:10 a.m., the visitors in blue had a very, embarrassing loss after an unusually long night at the ballpark.

It never rains in Southern California? OK, this one was at suddenly stormy AT&T Park. The last Giants-Dodgers rain out at Dodgers Stadium was in August 1977, the night after Elvis died.

The Los Angeles Dodgers never lose 11 in a row? Can’t say that: In the midst of one of their most successful seasons ever since moving from Brooklyn in 1958, the Dodgers have gone nearly two weeks without a win, stuck on 92 wins for the season, after Monday’s 8-6 loss to the Giants.

“We came back, got back in the game a couple times,” Corey Seager said. “Unfortunately we didn’t win. Just got to get back to winning, that’s about it. Nothing else about that.”

The first batter of the game, Curtis Granderson struck out facing Chris Stratton at 7:58pm. Nearly three hours later, Denard Span, the Giants’ third batter of the night, homered to give the Giants a 2-0 lead.

A nearly three-hour rain delay–after the game’s first batter–turned the evening toward the surreal. The Giants struck first, scoring in each of the first three innings to build a 4-0 lead and chase Dodgers’ starter Kenta Maeda. But the Dodgers responded, tying the game with four runs in the fourth.

The Giants led in the fifth and sixth, only to see the Dodgers match those runs in the next frame.

The difference? Hunter Pence’s RBI single in the sixth, scored Pablo Sandoval to give the Giants a 7-6 lead. Buster Posey’s RBI double in the seventh provided insurance. Hunter Strickland pitched a scoreless eighth, and Sam Dyson pitched the ninth, earning his 13th save.

The teams combined to use 15 pitchers in the game, including Giant’s starter Stratton who faced just one batter. The game took slightly less longer to play than the 3 hours, 22 minutes in rain delays.

Both teams entered Monday’s series opener playing awful baseball. Both teams had lost five series in a row, and the Dodgers had compiled 15 losses in their last 16 games. The Dodgers’ losing streak makes them the first club since 1991 to build winning and losing streaks of 10 or more games in the same season.