LOS ANGELES — The Padres began their weekend here with an exhilarating comeback and then stayed through a unique couple days, biding their time and squandering opportunities before coming away with something rare.

With a 6-3 victory over the Dodgers on Sunday, they won a second consecutive series at Dodger Stadium for the first time in 11 years.

It seemed relevant that it was Jurickson Profar’s bases-loaded double in the seventh inning that was the decisive blow, breaking a 3-3 tie.

The night before, following a Dodgers victory that saw both teams’ benches clear in the fifth inning after Profar took exception at an inside pitch, Dodgers catcher Will Smith said, “I don’t know why we would have thrown at him. He’s kind of irrelevant.”

His ability to finally make a Dodgers pitcher pay for all they were giving away was the reason the Padres won for the second time in three days and are back at .500 (9-9).

For the first time in 36 years, there was a rain delay on successive days at Dodger Stadium.

Sunday’s 36-minute wait for the weather to clear followed a delay of two hours, 15 minutes on Saturday.

There is little more excruciating in the middle of a long baseball season than waiting around to play baseball during a rain delay.

But the Padres were able to find something more.

They grounded into three double plays, two of them with the bases loaded, as they wasted the first six of James Paxton’s eight walks.

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