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- Updated: May 4, 2016
ST. PETERSBURG — Trayce Thompson, who Tuesday night drove in as many runs as the Dodgers scored in the previous three games combined (four), said he wasn’t shocked at the sudden offensive surge that powered the team to a 10-5 Interleague win over the Rays.
“We’ve been due for that,” said Thompson, whose two-run single in the fifth was just as important, but certainly not as spectacular, as his two-run moonshot home run that never came down, landing on the catwalk above left-center field at Tropicana Field.
Talk about due, Howie Kendrick shared the offensive spotlight with Thompson. Kendrick went 4-for-5, contributing his first extra-base hit (a double) and RBIs of the season (two) in raising his average from .143 to .197.
The Dodgers also got a three-run blast from similarly slumping Yasiel Puig, a solo shot from Joc Pederson and just enough pitching from Scott Kazmir and the bullpen to help put a 1-6 homestand in the rear-view mirror.
“It’s weird, you get on the road and you’re a little more …
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