The Los Angeles Dodgers dropped Game 2 of the World Series to the Tampa Bay Rays in a 6-4 loss to tie the series up at 1-1. 

With a one game advantage going into the game Dodgers manager Dave Roberts opted for a bullpen game to save Walker Buehler for Game 3, while the Rays went to starting pitcher Blake Snell, who had a solid outing against L.A. in little over four innings.

Opposite Snell, the Dodgers started Tony Gonsolin, who gave up a solo home run to Brandon Lowe in the first inning for an early Rays 1-0 lead, but made it through the remainder of the inning unscathed. 

Gonsolin got one more out in the second before he was relieved by Dylan Floro who closed out the inning for the Dodgers with no runs scored. 

Floro gave the Dodgers two outs in the third before he was then also relieved, this time by Victor Gonzalez, as the Dodgers stuck with the game plan and Gonzalez finished off the inning.

The Dodgers kept Gonzalez out there into the fourth and picked up two outs before he exited the game for Dustin May who inherited one runner on first base and the Dodgers bullpen approach started to fail them.

May opened his appearance with a single to Manuel Margot followed by a two-RBI double from Joey Wendle to open the lead up to 3-0 for the Rays.

Roberts stuck with May, let him work through it and he closed out the inning with no more damage done.

Meanwhile, Snell continued to deal for the Rays with eight strikeouts through four innings and no runs scored.

May returned to the mound in the fifth and opened the inning with two outs, a strikeout and a groundout, but then gave up a single to Austin Meadows and followed it up with a home run to Brandon Lowe, his second of the night, to extend the Rays lead to 5-0.

In the bottom of the inning, the Dodgers finally managed to score off of Snell. After he started the inning with two outs, Snell walked Kike Hernandez and Chris Taylor sent a fly ball into the right field stands for a two-run homer to close the gap to 5-2.

Snell issued another walk, this time to Mookie Betts, and Corey Seager singled to put the potential tying runs on base, but Rays manager Kevin Cash decided to call it a night for Snell at that point, who was replaced by Nick Anderson. 

Justin Turner took to the plate with an opportunity to tie things up, but Anderson struck him out to end the inning.

The Rays tacked on another score in the sixth on a Joey Wendle sacrifice fly off of Joe Kelly to make it 6-2. Will Smith swatted a solo home run off of Anderson to left center field to keep the Dodgers hopes alive with the game at 6-3.

The Dodgers had one more opportunity to tie the game up in the eighth. Corey Seager hit a leadoff home run off of reliever Pete Fairbanks to start the inning and make the score 6-4. Justin Turner followed that up with a double to set a potential game-tying home run, but that home run didn’t materialize and Turner was left on base.

There was no ninth inning miracle for the Dodgers as the Rays closed out the game at 6-4.

The teams have one day off on Thursday before they return to play on Friday at 5:08 p.m. at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas.

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