Giants get to Kershaw in win

SAN FRANCISCO — There was no full moon above Oracle Park on Friday night. If there had been, that might explain some of the oddities that transpired on the field below, where the Los Angeles Dodgers experienced something that happens once in a blue moon:

They lost a game that Clayton Kershaw started.

The San Francisco Giants snapped a scoreless tie with two runs in the sixth inning off the Dodgers left-hander and held on for a 2-1 victory before a crowd of 35,157, marking the first time since last Aug. 13 — a span of 17 regular-season starts — the Dodgers lost a game Kershaw started.

Kershaw (5-1) gave up two runs and six hits in seven innings, striking out four and walking one, but suffered his first loss since last July 21, a span of 21 regular-season starts. It also gave the Dodgers their first two-game losing streak since they lost back-to-back games to the Cubs in Chicago on April 2324.

A strange evening began with Dodgers slugger Cody Bellinger stepping to the plate in the first inning and getting serenaded by chants of “MVP! MVP!” In San Francisco, where fans usually greet their hated rivals with chants of “Beat L.A.!”

Then there was the prolific Dodgers offense loading the bases with one out in the first against a pitcher with a 1-6 record and an 8.08 ERA ... and not scoring. And second baseman Max Muncy, not exactly known for his defensive prowess, making three Gold Glove-caliber plays in the first four innings.

And the Giants employing a four-man outfield against Corey Seager, who grounded a fourth-inning single through a vacated shortstop hole ... and Seager tripping on the first-base bag on a seventh-inning infield single and getting a face-full of dirt.

Seager’s stumble wasn’t even the worst face-plant of the night for the Dodgers. That honor went to left fielder Chris Taylor, who tripped on a bullpen mound in pursuit of Brandon Belt’s sixth-inning foul pop that could have been caught but instead allowed the go-ahead run to reach base.