Ray began the frame with a strikeout, then induced a groundout and a fly out. Ray’s excitement didn’t lie in the results. As Ray walked back to Oracle Park’s third-base dugout, he realized his timing was back. He felt synced up. He was finally back.

In the 11th, the Dodgers scored three times — a bloop run-scoring single by Freddie Freeman, an infield single on a chopper by Teoscar Hernandez which drove in a run, and a bloop RBI single to right by Andy Pages. That made Bivins (2-3), a hard-luck loser.