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Ruiz finds Jansen tough to handle in debut
- Updated: August 27, 2016
LOS ANGELES — The game has a tendency to find you, as it found Carlos Ruiz in his Dodgers debut Friday night.
The Dodgers lost to the Cubs in the series opener between division leaders, 6-4 in 10 innings, on the second of two Kris Bryant moonshots and a two-strikeout save by Cubs closer Aroldis Chapman. But the Dodgers, and Ruiz, let this one get away.
The new catcher acquired in the A.J. Ellis trade had a nice debut ruined when he was unable to handle closer Kenley Jansen in the ninth inning. A strike-three slider in the dirt bounced off his backhand glove attempt to allow the tying run to take third, then when calling for a high cutter, he simply missed the pitch that let the tying run home. The official scorer ruled a wild pitch that could have been called a passed ball.
“I don’t have an excuse, I should have caught that ball and I don’t know what happened,” said Ruiz, who went 1-for-3 with a walk and was hit by a pitch. “It’s the first time that I caught him and his …
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