The Dodgers weren’t in a good mood when they got to Shea yesterday. And they were in a lousy mood when they left, following a controversial 1-0 loss.

Forced to play a make-up game here for the April 9 contest that was snowed out, the Dodgers played a day game in Cincinnati on Sunday, flew to New York Sunday night and had a 1 p.m. first-pitch yesterday. Still, the Dodgers had battled the Mets to a 0-0 tie in the bottom ninth yesterday when a crucial call at third went against them.

Dodgers manager Davey Johnson bolted out of the dugout after Melvin Mora was ruled safe by third-base ump Gerry Davis on a bang-bang force play.

Mora was on second, pinch-running for Robin Ventura, who opened the inning with a double. Jon Nunnally followed with a walk, then Jay Payton hit a grounder toward the hole. Dodgers third baseman Adrian Beltre took a step toward the ball before realizing he had no play. That forced Beltre to backpedal toward third as shortstop Kevin Elster fielded and threw to the bag.

Mora slid as Beltre felt for the bag with his right foot.

“I think he was scared I was going to hit him with my spikes,” said Mora.

Beltre said he wasn’t positive his foot was on the bag when he received Elster’s throw, but he was certain he tagged Mora before Mora got to the base.

“I thought I got him with both,” said Beltre. “The tag, I’m sure I got it.”

Davis didn’t see it that way. His safe call came immediately and emphatically.

“When Elster tossed the ball to Beltre, he was not on the base,” Davis told The Post. “That obviously would have been a force out, had his foot been on the base. By the time he went to tag him, he tagged him high and the runner was on the base.”

Johnson, who said he had a good angle on the play from the visitors’ dugout, was at third railing at Davis before the dust from Mora’s slide had settled. Within seconds, Davis tossed Johnson.

“I didn’t cuss him,” said Johnson. “I said, ‘What in the world are you throwing me for? He said, ‘I have the right to throw you any time I want to throw you.’ I said, ‘Thanks. Great call.'”

It’s what Johnson did, rather than what he said, that got him tossed.

“He got ejected for throwing his tobacco in disgust,” said Davis.

The Dodgers, with their infield drawn in, faced bases loaded and no outs. Rey Ordonez hit a hard grounder to Elster, who threw home to force Mora at the plate.

Then Matt Franco hit a one-hopper right at Los Angeles reliever Terry Adams. Franco’s first thought was that he had just hit into an inning-ending double play. But the ball deflected off Adams and Nunnally scored the only run of the game.

“I felt I did the things I needed to get out of the inning,” said Adams. “I just didn’t field my position. I would give myself an error because that ball was hit right at me [it was ruled an infield single]. It was one of those games where whichever team made the least mistakes was going to win. I made a mistake.”

According to the Dodgers, so did Davis.

“That [call] was going to be the ballgame right there,” said Johnson.

It was.