Dave Roberts ejection, Dodgers social media troll, Andy Pages revenge bury Padres

Anyone who was standing firm in the belief that the Dodgers and Padres aren't real rivals were decisively proven wrong on Tuesday night in the second game of four at Dodger Stadium (and LA's second series against San Diego in just 10 days).

The trouble started in the series opener, when Dylan Cease hit Andy Pages with a pitch in the bottom of the fourth, and Pages quickly started jawing at the pitcher. Padres Mike Schildt also got in on the screaming, but Pages took his base without a dust-up (even though both of the bullpens looked ready to swarm).

After the game, Pages maintained that the Padres hit him intentionally because they thought he was relaying signs from second base, and Manny Machado made things worse (par for the course) when he said that the Dodgers had "some big dogs over there we can hit" if they wanted to.

The beaning continued in the second game. Jack Dreyer hit Fernando Tatis Jr. in the back in the third, then Randy Vásquez returned the favor and plunked Shohei Ohtani in the leg during the very next frame. Umpires issued warnings to both teams, which sent Dave Roberts storming out of the dugout. It was the most animated Dodgers fans have seen Roberts in a long time; he screamed particularly at third base umpire Tripp Gibson for at least two minutes straight before earning his 13th career ejection.

At that point, the Dodgers were down 3-2. Pages scored one of LA's runs on a go-ahead solo homer, but he was going to put in a lot more work before the night was over.

Dodgers-Padres tensions boil over after two hit-by-pitches, Dave Roberts gets ejected, Andy Pages plays hero

Pages homered again in his second at-bat of the night to tie the game at 3-3, then he added to LA's lead in bottom of the fifth with an RBI single after a Will Smith two-run homer. Pages ended a perfect 4-4 night with a single in the bottom of the eighth, and the Dodgers ended up pulling away and winning 8-6 to take another from the Padres.

There were even more hit-by-pitch theatrics in the top of the seventh, when Jose Iglesias was hit by a pitch by Matt Sauer, but Sauer remained in the game despite the earlier warnings from the umpires. Machado took exception to this and exited the dugout to start yelling. No one was ejected and Iglesias took his base, but Machado looked like he was begging for a fight.

The Dodgers' social media admin took a cheeky shot at Machado's earlier comments on Pages, captioning a video of his first homer "Big dog, Andy Pages." Even Ohtani seemed to throw a little shade on Instagram, when he posted a picture of himself getting hit by that pitch without comment.

The Dodgers and Padres are rivals. If anyone needed more proof of that, Tuesday night provided plenty.