SAN DIEGO — Adrian Gonzalez hit a two-run, two-out bases-loaded single in the top of the 12th inning Sunday to give the Dodgers a 4-2 victory over the Padres in the rubber match of a three-game weekend series at Petco Park.
Four innings earlier, Gonzalez, a former Padre and San Diego County native, hit a two-out, run-scoring double to tie the game at 2-2.
The win was the Dodgers eighth in 12 games against the Padres this season. The Dodgers won all four of the series between the teams.
Dodgers third baseman Alberto Callaspo started the game-winning rally with a one-out double off right-handed reliever Dale Thayer, the sixth of seven pitchers used by the Padres. Thayer then issued consecutive walks to Kike Hernandez and Joc Pederson — loading the bases with one out.
Pinch-hitter Alex Guerrero lined out to Matt Kemp, but the right fielder’s perfect throw to the plate forced Callaspo to hold at third.
Gonzales then lined a single to center off Thayer (2-2). Right-hander Josh Ravin (2-0), the sixth of seven Dodgers pitchers, got the win. Right-handed closer Kenley Jansen got his ninth save.
Dodgers center fielder Joc Pederson sent the game into extra innings with an over-the-head catch of a Justin Upton drive at the center field fence with two out in the ninth and the winning run at second. Pederson raced back at full speed and caught the ball as he ran into the fence.
Earlier, Upton had given the Padres a 2-0 lead in the fifth with a two-out, two-run, bases-loaded single in the fifth off Dodgers starter Mike Bolsinger.
Meanwhile, Padres right-handed starter James Shields allowed one run on five hits and three walks with six strikeouts over seven innings to depart with a 2-1 lead. The only run allowed by Shields was a seventh inning homer by Dodgers left fielder Andre Ethier.
But the Dodgers tied the game in the bottom of the eighth after reliever Joaquin Benoit retired the first two hitters he faced. Yaisel Puig drew a full-count walk and Gonzalez, who had been 1-for-10 in the series with four double-play grounders, lined a double to right with Puig racing home from first.
Bolsinger, who blanked the Padres on one hit over eight innings the first time he faced San Diego this season, seemed to be cruising when the wheels fell off in the bottom of fifth.
He had retired nine straight Padres, including five by strikeouts, when Shields started the Padres decisive rally with a two-out single to right. Center fielder Will Venable followed with a single to right and third baseman Yangervis Solarte drew a walk to load the bases.
That brought up left fielder Upton with the bases loaded and two out.
A night earlier, Upton homered off Dodgers right-handed ace Zack Greinke with two out in the eighth to snap a 1-1 tie and give the Padres a 2-1 win.
This time he lined a two-run single to center, scoring Shields and Venable. After Matt Kemp walked, Bolsinger departed in favor of left-handed reliever J.P. Howell, who retired first baseman Yonder Alonso on a grounder to first.
Bolsinger allowed two runs on six hits and three walks with seven strikeouts in 4 2/3 innings.
The Dodgers, meanwhile, had runners on base in each of the first five innings against Shields and missed on several opportunities.
Left fielder Ethier tripled to right center with two out in the second, but was stranded when Shields struck out shortstop Jimmy Rollins to end the inning. Callaspo doubled to lead off the third, but was thrown out trying to score from second by Kemp on Pederson’s single. Rollins singled leading off the fifth and reached second on a sacrifice bunt by Bolsinger but also was stranded.
The Padres also turned two double plays behind Shields.
The Dodgers finally got on the board with one out in the seventh when Either hit a 340-foot home run to right off Shields — Ethier’s ninth of the season and the 16th homer allowed by Shields in 14 starts.
The Padres blew an excellent opportunity to pad their lead in the bottom of the seven after Venable and Solarte hit back-to-back singles to put runners at the corners with one out. But right-handed Dodgers reliever Chris Hatcher struck out Upton and retired Kemp on a fly to right.
NOTES: SS Trea Turner, the Padres first-round pick in the 2014 draft, officially transferred to the Washington Nationals on Sunday as the player to be named later in the three-team trade last Dec. 18 that brought CF-1B Wil Myers to the Padres. Turner was hitting .322 with Double-A San Antonio. SS Jose Rondon, 21, is being transferred from high Class A Lake Elsinore to take Turner’s spot with the Missions. … Padres LHP Cory Luebke will make his second, one-inning rehab outing with Lake Elsinore Tuesday. He worked a perfect inning Saturday night for the Storm in his first game action since April of 2012. … Dodgers OF Scott Van Slyke will play OF Sunday and 1B Monday with Class A Rancho Cucamonga before being activated by the Dodgers from the disabled list on Tuesday.
