Los Angeles Dodger Trevor Bauer leaves after being relieved in the top of the seventh inning cupping his ear as if to say ” I can’t hear you” to the Oracle Park crowd in San Francisco on Fri May 21, 2021 (AP News photo)

By Jeremy Kahn

Alex Wood threw one bad pitch and Chris Taylor took advantage of it and gave the Los Angeles Dodgers a huge victory.

Taylor hit a two-run home run off of Wood in the top of the third inning, as the defending World Champion Dodgers defeated the San Francisco Giants 2-1 at Oracle Park. With the loss, the Giants saw their five-game winning streak comes to an end.

Mookie Betts doubled to center field and then Taylor hit his sixth home run of the season over the center field wall, and that would be all that Trevor Bauer would need.

Bauer, who signed a huge contract with the Dodgers during the off-season and went 6.1 innings, allowing one unearned run on just two hits, walking four and striking out 11, as he improved to 5-2 on the season.

Nate Jones and former Oakland As reliever Blake Treinen went the final 2.2 innings of perfect relief and the Giants fell into a tie for first place, as the San Diego Padres tied the Giants for first place after a win over the Seattle Mariners at Petco Park.

Treinen pitched a perfect ninth inning to notch his second save of the season for the Dodgers, who are 27-18 on the season.

Wood lost for the first time as a member of the Giants, as he went 6.0 innings, allowing those two runs on eight hits, walking two and striking out seven.

The Giants got to Bauer in the bottom of the sixth inning, as Evan Longoria reached on a Bauer throwing error that allowed Mike Yastrzemski score what turned out to be the lone Giants run of the evening.

Yastrzemski walked to lead off the inning, and then Brandon Crawford walked after Buster Posey was called out on strikes for the first out, then Brandon Belt struck out for the second out and then Longoria hit a ball that Bauer that threw away to score Yastrzemski and send Crawford to third and Longoria to second base. Unfortunately, the rally came to a screeching halt, as Alex Dickerson flew out to Betts to end the inning.

That would be the last chance for the Giants, who could muster anything against Nate Jones and Treinen

NOTES: Despite the loss, the Giants have now been in first place for 26 consecutive days, their longest streak since spending 93 consecutive days in first place from mid-May to mid-August of 2016. Over the past four seasons from 2017-2020, the Giants spent only three days in first place in the National League West.

Nick Tropeano was selected from Sacramento, while Camilo Doval was sent to Sacramento and Trevor Hildenberger was designated for assignment.

During the Giants 19-4 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Thursday afternoon at Great American Ballpark, it was just the fourth time since the Giants moved to California in 1958 that scored at least 19 runs and hit four or more home runs in the same game.

The Giants last accomplished the feat on September 1, 2020 against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field, when they scored 23 runs and hit four home runs, the Giants scored 19 runs and hit four home runs also at Coors Field on July 1, 2019 against the Rockies. The first time they turned the trick was on July 9, 1988 against the St. Louis Cardinals at Candlestick Park, when they scored 21 runs and hit five home runs.

UP NEXT: The Giants have yet to announce a starter for Saturday afternoon, while Walker Buehler will take the mound for the Dodgers in a 4:15 start that will be shown nationally on FOX (KTVU Channel 2) with Joe Davis and John Smoltz on the call.