ST. LOUIS — The best-hitting team in baseball with runners in scoring position, the Dodgers suddenly can’t buy a timely hit.

They were shut out into the ninth inning Saturday afternoon, losing 2-1 to the St. Louis Cardinals on Nolan Arenado’s pinch-hit walkoff single in the bottom of the ninth.

The first run of the day didn’t even score until the bottom of the eighth, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Erick Fedde putting up scoreless starts. The Cardinals put two runners on with two out against Dodgers reliever Ben Casparius. Alec Burleson bounced a ball back up the middle that ricocheted off Casparius and toward shortstop.

Casparius scrambled to retrieve the ball and made an ill-advised attempt to throw Burleson out at first. His throw was wide. Masyn Winn started the play on second base, went to

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