LOS ANGELES — It was another tense game between the Padres and Dodgers on Tuesday night.

Then suddenly, it was not.

And then it quickly was again.

In the end, the Dodgers held on for an 8-6 victory in a game filled with drama for the second straight night in a rivalry in which that has become the norm.

“I think it’s fantastic,” Padres manager Mike Shildt said. “The best part about a rivalry is people are going to bring their best shot. And the good news is, both teams are just bringing it every night. And so we love it. We can’t do it, but I wish we’d play every night. It’s just a hard-fought contest.”

The teams were tied tied 3-3 after five innings. The Dodgers led 8-3 after six. The Padres answered with three runs in the top of the seventh inning.

The Padres threatened again in the eighth before Dodgers left-hander Tanner Scott set down the middle of the order in order in the ninth.

The tame finish belied the night’s events.

Enough happened even before the explosive middle of the game to have made it an interesting evening at Dodger Stadium.

A star player on each team was hit by a pitch in the third inning. The sides were warned that another hit batter could result in an ejection, and Dodgers manager Dave Roberts was ejected.

“Almost an actual hard-fought baseball game,” Shildt said. “But definitely a hard-fought baseball game on our part, both sides competing very well. And nobody was giving a quarter.”

Just when it seemed the game had devolved into an old-fashioned whooping, with the Dodgers scoring five runs in an inning for the second straight game, Trenton Brooks hit a two-run homer in the seventh, and the Padres added a run on two walks, a fielder’s choice, a very fortunate timeout and a balk.

With one out, Fernando Tatis Jr. walked and advanced to second on a Luis Arraez grounder up the middle. Dodgers second baseman Tommy Edman dove to stop the ball and flipped it to shortstop Mookie Betts, who dropped the ball as Tatis slid in hard.

Tatis, believing he was out, walked away from the base and was tagged out. Tatis did not protest and started to walk toward the dugout.

But home plate umpire Ryan Blakney had called timeout, and Tatis was able to remain at second base.

Michael Kopech was brought in to face Manny Machado, who walked to load the bases.

With Xander Bogaerts up, Kopech stumbled while making a pitch, which by rule was a balk and moved the runners up a base, bringing Tatis in to make it 8-6.

Bogaerts grounded out to end the inning.

The Padres put runners at second and third with one out in the eighth inning before Elias Díaz struck out and, after the Dodgers intentionally walked Tatis, Arraez popped out.

“We created traffic all night,” said Bogaerts, who grounded into an inning-ending double play with a runner at third base in the third inning and grounded into another double play with runners on first and second and none out in the sixth. “We just didn’t do our job. … I hit into a couple double plays. That’s not the way you want to do it.”

The Dodgers used six relievers to get through the game.

The Padres took a 1-0 lead in the first inning against Jack Dreyer when Arraez singled and scored from second on a single by Gavin Sheets.

A double by Will Smith, sacrifice fly by Max Muncy and the first of Andy Pages’ two home runs put the Dodgers up 2-1 in the bottom of the second.

Martín Maldonado greeted new pitcher Lou Trivino with a double off the center field wall to start the third inning before Tatis was hit in the back by a fastball.

Arraez followed with a single that drove in Maldonado and moved Tatis to third. After a walk by Machado, Sheets’ sacrifice fly put the Padres up 3-2.

With one out in the bottom of the third, Padres starter Randy Vásquez hit Shohei Ohtani just above the right knee.

While Ohtani laughed with Arraez at first base, the umpires met and then issued warnings to both teams.

Crew chief Marvin Hudson first pointed to the Padres dugout, where Padres manager Mike Shildt did not show any response.

“I thought it was appropriate,” Shildt said of the warnings. “You know, err on the side of caution.”

Hudson then pointed at the Dodgers dugout. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts immediately began hollering.

Hudson appeared to motion for him to stay where he was. As soon as Roberts stepped out of the dugout, still yelling, third base umpire Tripp Gibson ejected him. This led to one of the longer, more animated demonstrations by a manager.

“I’m very big on common sense,” said Roberts, who felt the Padres were the only ones who should have been warned. “And so for me, for them to issue warnings, I feel it’s common sense for me to ask their thought process and hold them accountable to their decision. That’s all I wanted to know. And I was going to stand aside. …  I wanted an explanation on their thought process. I didn’t come in hot. I just wanted to know why. And at that point in time, I realized later I got tossed, which I didn’t understand or appreciate.”

Vásquez got out of that inning but surrendered Pages’ second homer, which tied the game, in the fourth.

Vásquez had thrown just 68 pitches and had ended the fifth inning by striking out Ohtani and getting Mookie Betts on a fly ball deep to the gap in left-center.

But he has struggled the third time through the order this season, and with the heart of the order coming up and Pages possibly batting fourth, Shildt decided to turn to one of his higher-leverage relievers for the sixth.

Jeremiah Estrada did not get any of the five batters he faced out.

Freddie Freeman singled, Smith ended a 12-pitch at-bat by sending a 99 mph fastball down and in off the plate 388 feet to the seats beyond left-center field, Teosocar Hernández singled, Muncy singled and Pages singled.

Yuki Matsui replaced Estrada and got the first out before Edman’s double made it 8-3.

“I thought we fought,” Roberts said. “Guys laid it out there. The pitching, we found a way. … It was a fun game, unfortunately, to watch from my office, but our guys really played well.”