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Lowe, the team's best hitter during the regular
season but who has struggled during the postseason, broke out of
his slump with a solo shot in the first inning before adding a
two-run blast in the fifth to extend the Rays lead to 5-0.
Starting pitcher Blake Snell neutralized the Dodgers lineup, not
giving up a hit until Chris Taylor smashed a two-run homer in
the bottom of the fifth that trimmed the Rays lead to 5-2.
Each team added a run in the sixth and the Dodgers closed the
gap to 6-4 on Corey Seager's home run in the next inning but the
Rays bullpen closed out the game to even up the best-of-seven
series ahead of Game Three on Friday.
The Dodgers, who won Tuesday's opener 8-3, struck out 15 times
and recorded just five hits against Snell and the Rays
relievers.
"I attacked the zone really well, mixed it up, and did a good
job keeping them off balance," said Snell, the American League
Cy Young Award winner in 2018.
"They are a very selective team with a few guys who are
aggressive, so I had a pretty good game plan for what I needed
to do to have success against them.
"Today it went my way but, I'll see them again and I'll have to
be better."
The World Series comes at the end of a truncated, 60-game
regular season due to the COVID-19 pandemic and is being played
entirely at the new $1.1 billion Globe Life Field in Texas with
a limited number of fans in attendance.
Dodgers ace Walker Buehler takes the mound against Rays right
hander Charlie Morton in Game Three.
(Reporting by Rory Carroll in Los Angeles; Editing by Peter
Rutherford)
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