SAN FRANCISCO — Charlie Culberson doubled with one out in the 10th inning to score Corey Seager as the Los Angeles Dodgers completed a late rally to secure a 3-2 victory over the San Francisco Giants in a rain-delayed game on Saturday afternoon.
The second consecutive extra-inning affair between the National League West rivals didn’t have the dramatics of Friday’s no-hit bid by LA rookie Ross Stripling, but it ended better for the Dodgers, who won in San Francisco for just the third time in their last 13 visits.
After the Dodgers scored in the top of the ninth to tie the score at 2 and force extra innings, Seager lined a one-out double against the sixth Giants pitcher, right-hander George Kontos (0-1), to trigger the winning uprising in the 10th.
Culberson, who had been 0-for-2 in the Dodgers’ first five games, followed with his second double of the game, scoring Seager with the difference-making run.
Closer Kenley Jansen pitched a 1-2-3 bottom of the 10th for his second save.
Chris Hatcher (1-0), who pitched a scoreless ninth in relief of Clayton Kershaw, picked up the win.
After a 41-minute delay, the game began as a pitchers’ duel between left-handed aces Kershaw and Madison Bumgarner of the Giants, one it appeared Bumgarner was going to win before LA rallied to tie in the ninth.
Neither starter got a decision in a game that also ended in the rain.
The Dodgers extended the wet game in the ninth, scoring to make it 2-2 thanks to a fielding gaffe by second second baseman Kelby Tomlinson.
Down 2-1, LA loaded the bases with one out against Giants closer Santiago Casilla on a walk, a Yasiel Puig single and a hit batsman.
Chase Utley scored the tying run when Tomlinson bobbled Adrian Gonzalez’s potential game-ending double play grounder, allowing the Giants just to get one out at first base.
Having blown his first save of the season, Casilla then retired reserve catcher Austin Barnes on a fly ball to left field, stranding runners on second and third.
While they were in the game, Bumgarner continued his recent dominance of Kershaw, both on the mound and at the plate, hitting and pitching the Giants into their late lead.
Giants shortstop Ehire Adrianza broke a 1-1 tie with a home run in the fifth, providing the one-run difference before LA rallied in the ninth.
Bumgarner limited the Dodgers to one run and six hits in six innings and also got to Kershaw for a homer that provided the first run of the game in the bottom of the second.
Bumgarner walked one and struck out eight.
Kershaw went eight innings, allowing two runs and four hits. He walked one and struck out five.
The matchup of All-Stars was the fifth in the last two seasons. The Giants won three of the four last season.
The high-profile duo is scheduled for a rematch Friday in Los Angeles.
The Giants will go for a 3-1 series win on Sunday, with right-hander Johnny Cueto squaring off with Dodgers left-hander Scott Kazmir.
Bumgarner’s home run was his second off Kershaw and the 12th of his career, tying him with the Baltimore Orioles’ Yovani Gallardo for the most among active pitchers.
The run snapped a 22 1/3-inning scoreless streak in the regular season for Kershaw dating to October.
Kershaw struck out Bumgarner in his next at-bat, but Adrianza, making his first start of the season in place of Friday’s hero, Brandon Crawford, belted the next pitch just inside the foul pole to give the Giants the lead.
The homer was Adrianza’s first of the season and second of his four-year major-league career.
The Giants have hit at least one home run in each of their first six games, equaling a franchise record set in 1948 and tied in 2000.
The Dodgers’ run came against Bumgarner in the third when Scott Van Slyke was brushed on the left elbow with a pitch with the bases loading, forcing in Enrique Hernandez, who opened the inning with a single.
Van Slyke left the game immediately after getting hit, complaining of back pain.
Hernandez, who led off the game with a double, had two of the Dodgers’ 10 hits. Culberson had two doubles and Gonzalez a single and a double for LA, which totaled six doubles.
The Giants finished with just five hits, two by Buster Posey.
NOTES: There have been only five rainouts in the history of AT&T Park, which was built in 2000. … With both managers using almost every available right-handed hitter to combat the matchup of star left-handed pitchers, the teams were left with just their backup catcher (the Dodgers’ Austin Barnes and Giants’ Trevor Brown) as available righties off the bench. … The Giants made 1B Brandon Belt’s contract extension official Saturday. He got his 2016 deal, originally set for $6.2 million, torn up as part of the new contract, which runs through the 2021 season. No financial terms were announced. … Before the game, the Dodgers placed LF Carl Crawford (sore back) on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to Friday. Crawford became the 11th Dodger to go on the DL this season. The Giants have had none. … INF Micah Johnson was promoted from Triple-A Oklahoma City to take Crawford’s spot on the roster.