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Those issues would be putting the ball in play. The weakness every American League team was expecting to be the Tampa Bay Rays downfall on the way to the post season, in the divisional round, and in the ALCS has finally made an appearance in the first game of the World Series.

The Rays managed just five hits in the entire game and none of those hits came after the fifth inning when they needed them to come back from the 3-2 deficit. The Philadelphia Phillies were no picture perfect team themselves. The team stranded 11 base runners and Ryan Howard went 0 for 4 with three strikeouts. The game wipes out the home field advantage the Rays were counting on. The team has had problems on the road this season and now are playing in an evenly split series.

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