![]() ![]() With Clayton Kershaw holding the Rays scoreless for the first three innings, the Dodgers built a 3-0 lead. It’s no wonder that they play really well at home.” But now, they pack it out for this ballpark and there’s a lot of energy. “It was tough in one sense years ago when no one was showing up and it was just kind of a down environment. “It’s tough, it’s tough,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said of the challenge of playing the Rays at home. But Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman drove in the tying and go-ahead runs as the Dodgers reclaimed a lost lead in the seventh inning and hung on for a 6-5 victory. It was touch and go on the field for the Dodgers on Saturday. Four teams draw fewer and the Rays don’t even have to count the actual rays in the ‘Touch Tank’ to pad the total. The Tampa Bay Rays’ best record in baseball has been largely built indoors, where they had a 25-5 record going into Saturday’s game and the team’s persistent success in recent years has swelled attendance to an average of just more than 17,000 fans per game this season. ![]() Instead, Tropicana Field has become a difficult place to play – even if it is still easy to get tickets. Most teams don’t even stay there anymore. ![]() For years, the scariest thing about a series at Tropicana Field was the ghost stories from the allegedly haunted hotel where most visiting teams stayed. ![]()
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