Chargers weather Raiders’ second-half rally to win Monday night showdown

INGLEWOOD — Chargers backmost Justin Herbert and borderline rusher Joey Bosa embraced, arsenic thousands of screaming Raiders fans booed their entranceway for a alleged location crippled Monday nighttime astatine SoFi Stadium.

The Chargers needed 1 different to find pregame enactment due to the fact that the thousands of achromatic jerseys were out-shouting the fans successful pulverization bluish jerseys. It seemed thing was going to quiescent the opposing team’s fans until lightning struck extracurricular the stadium to origin a 35-minute upwind delay.

Herbert and the Chargers bought themselves much quiescent clip with a three-touchdown pb by halftime, but they seldom marque it casual connected themselves erstwhile it comes to the scoreboard, and Raiders fans often marque their beingness felt, particularly successful Southern California.

The Chargers weathered the Raiders’ second-half rally and leaned connected Herbert and moving backmost Austin Ekeler to unafraid a 28-14 triumph and amended to 3-1. The Chargers are tied with the Raiders and the Denver Broncos for archetypal spot successful the AFC West standings.

Herbert finished 25 of 38 for 222 yards and 3 touchdowns. Ekeler had 117 rushing yards with 1 touchdown and 28 receiving yards with 1 touchdown.

After 14 unanswered points by the Raiders, Ekeler extended the Chargers’ pb with an 11-yard touchdown tally with 5:20 near successful regulation. The Chargers continued the thrust due to the fact that Herbert connected with choky extremity Jared Cook for 13 yards connected a fourth-and-2 from the 50-yard line.

Chargers information Derwin James iced the triumph erstwhile helium intercepted a Derek Carr walk with 3:22 left. James ran down the sideline to observe and question goodbye to the Raiders fans.

Raiders kicker Daniel Carlson missed a 52-yard field-goal effort to support the people 21-14 with 10:42 left.

With a 21-0 deficit, the Raiders started their rally successful the 3rd 4th with 2 touchdowns. Raiders backmost Derek Carr threw a jump-ball touchdown walk to choky extremity Darren Waller to trim the Chargers’ pb to 21-14 with 1:44 near successful the 3rd quarter. The Pro Bowl choky extremity jumped supra Chargers information Nasir Adderley to implicit the 3-yard touchdown catch.

Brandon Staley has impressed arsenic a first-time caput manager due to the fact that of his attraction to detail. The Chargers’ manager displayed that erstwhile helium challenged a archetypal down ruling precocious successful the archetypal half. Staley won the situation and forced the Raiders to punt connected fourth-and-1 from their 17-yard line.

Herbert made Raiders manager Jon Gruden wage for not going for the abbreviated 4th down. He executed a near-perfect touchdown thrust with 2:44 near successful the archetypal half. Ekeler capped the nine-play scoring thrust with a 14-yard touchdown drawback to widen the pb to 21-0.

Herbert was 20 of 25 for 175 yards, 3 touchdowns and a passer standing of 135.4 astatine halftime.

The choky ends contributed to the Chargers’ 21-0 halftime lead. Herbert recovered Cook for a 10-yard touchdown walk connected third-and-8 to springiness the Chargers their 2nd touchdown of the archetypal half. Tight extremity Stephen Anderson ignited the thrust with a 34-yard reception. Tight extremity Donald Parham Jr. recorded a 4-yard touchdown drawback to unfastened the scoring.

The upwind hold occurred 10 minutes earlier the scheduled 5:15 kickoff. The crippled officially kicked disconnected astatine 5:50 p.m. Raiders players were connected the tract erstwhile the upwind hold started. Players trickled backmost onto the tract astir 5:34 p.m.

The 70,000-seat venue has a roof, but with unfastened aerial connected the sides of the precocious levels. The oculus video committee astatine SoFi Stadium was without powerfulness for a fewer minutes.

The Chargers struck archetypal aft the lighting delay. Herbert led them connected a 12-play, 75-yard touchdown opening thrust that ended with Parham’s 4-yard touchdown drawback connected third-and-goal.

The Chargers’ defence besides had a accelerated commencement by holding the Raiders to zero full yards successful 9 plays successful the archetypal quarter. It was the archetypal clip the Chargers held an hostile to zero oregon less full nett yards successful the opening 4th since 2001. The Raiders recorded their archetypal first down with 9:02 successful the 2nd quarter.

Joey Bosa and Jerry Tillery recorded sacks successful the opening quarter. Bosa’s forced fumble was his 50th vocation sack. He reached the milestone successful 67 vocation games, the fastest Charger to get to 50 sacks.

The Raiders got their discourtesy going connected the archetypal thrust of the 2nd half. Carr connected with wide receiver Hunter Renfrow connected a 10-yard touchdown walk to trim the shortage 21-7 and gave the galore Raiders fans successful attendance thing to cheer for.

Raiders fans erupted with 5:33 successful the 3rd 4th aft erstwhile Charger Darius Philon sacked Herbert connected 3rd down to unit a punt.

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