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- Updated: September 8, 2016
LOS ANGELES — The D-backs and Dodgers played for just over three hours on Wednesday night, but the game was really decided in the first inning.
Arizona starter Robbie Ray had trouble settling in, and the two runs allowed in that opening frame would come back to bite him as the D-backs fell, 3-1, and were swept in the three-game series at Dodger Stadium.
Ray (7-13) walked three batters in the first and uncorked a wild pitch that helped move Corey Seager to third, where he could score on a Yasiel Puig sacrifice fly.
“The first inning, I was just having trouble getting a feel for my pitches,” Ray said. “After that, I just found it. I found all of them, and they just started working for me.”
Ray did not allow another hit until Puig hit a solo homer in the sixth.
“That first inning, …
