Yoshinobu Yamamoto was brilliant, again, but the Dodgers offense had little to show for their efforts, falling 2-1 to the Cardinals on Saturday in a second consecutive loss at Busch Stadium in St. Louis.

Ben Casparius allowed the first run of the game in the eighth inning, and then allowed the game-winner in the ninth. After a leadoff double by Nolan Gorman to open the inning, pinch-hitter Nolan Arenado lofted a walk-off pinch single over a five-man infield to finish this one.

Neither team scored until the bottom of the the eighth, and the first runs for both teams were nontraditional.

With two outs in the frame and runners on first and second, Casparius gave up an infield single that ricocheted off of him to just behind the mound. He got to the ball but, with no real shot at getting

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