Dodgers Take ‘Stick Away From Giants : Baseball: They win, 7-6, in 10 innings after wasting a 6-1 lead. They had not won two in a row in San Francisco in more than two years.

The Dodgers have new feelings about an old enemy. After Jim Gott struck out Robby Thompson to end the game Saturday, he looked down the dirt in front of the mound.

Then he punched it.

“We remember what has happened here before,” Gott said of Candlestick Park. “We do not want to let it happen again.”

They showed as much Saturday by being the pursuer instead of the pursued. They took a 6-1 lead, lost it, then came back with a 10th-inning run to win, 7-6, before 32,557.

“This place can be intimidating at times but, you know, this seemed like a nice Southern California day today,” said Dave Hansen, who hit a two-run home run to highlight a six-run third inning.

Everything seemed different here after pinch-hitter Mitch Webster followed three walks by hitting Jeff Brantley’s hanging forkball to right field for a game-winning sacrifice fly.

The Dodgers have won consecutive games here for the first time since April 17-18, 1990. Today, they have a chance to sweep the Giants in a three-game series here for the first time since April 13-15, 1981.

This, even though their best pitcher thus far, Tom Candiotti, gave up Matt Williams’ three-run homer during the eighth inning to tie the score, 6-6.

“I’ve only played on two teams, but I know I’ve never played here and won,” Darryl Strawberry said. “This series is very important for our confidence and momentum.”

The Dodgers also are gaining some revenge for last season, when their championship hopes died here with consecutive losses on the final weekend.

“We all feel like we owe them,” Webster said.

They feel like they owe some more than others.

Recently Al Rosen, Giant general manager, was quoted in two published interviews as questioning the Dodger infield, catcher Mike Scioscia and the team’s talent in general.

Tom Lasorda, Dodger manager, read those quotes in the dugout late Saturday afternoon.

“All I did was remind them that he had said we were no good,” Lasorda said, smiling. “There’s nothing wrong with that, is there?”

Said outfielder Brett Butler: “Everybody was hacked off about what Rosen said. It added fuel to the fire.”

Against struggling relief pitcher Dave Righetti during the 10th inning, Strawberry and Eric Davis walked. Then pinch-hitter Juan Samuel laid down a perfect bunt on a pitch that was nearly in the dirt.

“I think we’re supposed to win this game, because I don’t know how I bunt that ball,” Samuel said.

Scioscia was walked on an unintentional ball and three intentional ones, loading the bases for Webster and new pitcher Jeff Brantley.

No pitcher in baseball has been better with the bases loaded in the past 17 years than Brantley, who has held opponents to a .091 batting average.

“I didn’t know that,” Webster said, shaking his head. “But I knew that since Jose Offerman had to leave the game because I was hitting, I had better do something.”

Webster’s first sacrifice fly of the year was enough.

John Candelaria, who has held Will Clark hitless in seven career encounters, started the bottom of the 10th by retiring him on a fly ball to left field. Then Kevin Bass grounded out and Lasorda pulled Candelaria to let Gott pitch against the right-handed hitting Williams.

Williams reached first when Lenny Harris booted a bad-hop grounder, his second error of the game and fourth in three games. But Thompson struck out on a full-count slider to give Gott his second save, matching last season’s total.

It appeared that the Dodgers had disposed of the Giants quickly after their third-inning outburst against starter John Burkett.

Six runs at Candlestick Park in one inning? Last season they didn’t score six runs in the final three games here combined.

The Dodgers scored on Hansen’s homer and two-run hits by Strawberry (double) and Davis (single).

Hansen’s hit was the most noteworthy, and not merely because it was his first home run of the season. He was starting his first game in nine days, and he had gone hitless in his previous 10 at-bats.