I never mind seeing the San Francisco Giants suffer.

This is a deep-seated frame of mind, going back to my childhood and the annual Wars of Religion between the Giants and my team, the Los Angeles Dodgers. Back to when Juan Marichal took a bat to John Roseboro’s head. Back to when the San Francisco groundskeepers turned the area around first base into a swamp, to keep my favorite player, Maury Wills, from stealing second base. Back when the Giants and their frozen fans, stuck in benighted Candlestick Park, really were jerks.

And I have to say, a very nice little schadenfreude moment came when I saw the result of the Dodgers’ game with the Giants on Monday night.

When I retired for the evening, in the south of France, nine hours ahead of Los Angeles, the Dodgers were trailing the Giants and their ace, Madison Bumgarner (which, I’m sorry, is still a ridiculous name), 1-0 after four innings.

I fell asleep thinking, “Giants win this one, beating Kershaw in the process, and it looks like the skeezy run they got (infield single, steal, E2, wild pitch) could hold up, they’re four back with two more to play in Los Angeles. Could be nervous time.”

So, I roll out of bed, fire up the laptop … and Dodgers win 2-1! And Giants lose 2-1. In part because their bullpen failed for the umpteenth time this season to protect a lead in the ninth inning, the Dodgers getting two in their final at-bat.

And seeing that was pure pleasure.

It got better.

Giants fans had to be second-guessing Bruce Bochy, Giants manager, after he hit for Bumgarner after seven scoreless and 97 pitches. MadBum was in a groove; the Dodgers had one hit and two hits batsmen, and they may not have scored on Bumgarner if he had been asked to throw 18 innings, let alone nine.

The Giants pretty much had to have this game, too, because now they are six behind with 12 to play, and that’s a hard road. Why not let the ace see if he can go nine?

Also, it gave greater dimension to the Giants’ second-half collapse, which has seen them go from having the best record in ball (57-33) at the All-Star break … to scrapping for a wild card after going 22-38 in the second, through tonight’s game.

Not many events in baseball cause more pain for players and fans than seeing a ninth-inning lead get away. (And not much is more pleasurable for the winners.)

The Dodgers got two runs in the bottom of the ninth against three sad Giants relievers. Toles single, Seager single, Turner RBI single, Gonzalez game-winning double.

Ha. Ha-ha-ha.

I really enjoyed that.