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Shut out again. Rays 0 Dodgers 3

While this game had many inflection points, and at least a few scoring chances, I think the final score was largely determined by this fact: The Rays hitters could not figure out Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Their inability to create any sort of offense for five innings made this a very hard game to win, and they fell to the Dodgers 3-0 to lose this series.

Yamamoto got the Dodgers into the sixth inning, walking no one and scattering five singles. Mostly he got a lot of players to hit the ball harmlessly into the ground. Jake Magnum managed to beat one of these out for a single, but otherwise those ground balls were entirely unproductive.