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LOS ANGELES -- Robbie Ray struck out 12 -- one off his season high -- and had nothing to show for it.Arizonas offense failed to back him in a 3-1 loss to the NL West-leading Los Angeles Dodgers on Wednesday night, sending the Diamondbacks home with a 3-5 record on their road trip. They were outscored 18-5 in losing the three-game series to the Dodgers.Ray (7-13) gave up three runs and two hits in six innings. The left-hander walked four, including three in the first inning.The first inning I was just having trouble feeling my pitches, feel for my fastball and the breaking stuff, he said. After that I found all of them and they just started working for me.Arizonas lone run came on Paul Goldschmidts RBI double with two outs in the first.Yasiel Puig homered with one out in the sixth, extending the Dodgers lead to 3-1.It was a curveball, Ray said. I was trying to backdoor it and it just didnt break enough. He is a strong hitter and even though he might have got it off the end of the bat, he is strong enough to hit it out.Ray struck out 10 or more batters for the fourth time this season.He had very good stuff, a lot of strikeouts again, Arizona manager Chip Hale said. We need to score some runs.Brock Stewart became the fourth consecutive rookie pitcher to win his start for the Dodgers, who have won five straight.The Dodgers increased their lead to a season-high five games over San Francisco, which lost 6-5 at Colorado.Stewart (1-2) allowed one run and five hits in five innings, struck out one and walked two. The Dodgers started four consecutive rookies for the second straight week while their battered rotation slowly comes back. Jose De Leon took the mound Sunday and Kenta Maeda went Monday, followed by Ross Stripling on Tuesday. All four won.Kenley Jansen pitched the ninth for his 43rd save in 49 chances, leaving him one shy of his career-high set in 2014.Los Angeles scored the tying and go-ahead runs in the bottom of the first. Corey Seager doubled into the right field corner, bringing home Howie Kendrick who had walked and narrowly avoided getting tagged in a head-first slide at the plate. Puigs sacrifice fly scored Seager, making it 2-1.Clinging to a 3-1 lead, the Dodgers bullpen squelched threats in the seventh and eighth innings.The D-backs loaded the bases in the seventh. Reliever Jesse Chavez gave up consecutive singles to pinch-hitter Phil Gosselin and Jean Segura before retiring the next two batters. He intentionally walked Goldschmidt and then struck out pinch-hitter Rickie Weeks Jr. to end the inning.Game on the line we thought that was our chance, Hale said. We always trust Rickie, he gives us good at-bats. Got the 3-2 and the guy made a good pitch on him.In the eighth, Pedro Baez came on and struck out Yasmany Tomas and Chris Hermann before walking pinch-hitter Mitch Haniger. He needed six pitches to retire Gosselin on a groundout to shortstop.TRAINERS ROOMD-backs: C Welington Castillo was scratched shortly before the game with tightness in his shoulder and replaced by Hermann.Dodgers: LHP Scott Kazmir experienced a setback in his rehab start at Triple-A Oklahoma City and left early with neck and ribcage issues. He will return to Los Angeles for further evaluation. He tossed 33 pitches and gave up a three-run homer, walked two and hit two batters.UP NEXTD-backs: RHP Braden Shipley (3-3, 4.94) starts the opener of a three-game home series against San Francisco. He is 2-0 with a 1.04 ERA in four starts when throwing six-plus innings.Dodgers: LHP Clayton Kershaw (11-2, 1.79) starts Friday for the first time since June 26 after missing two months with mild disk herniation. 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Mushtaq Ahmed, Pakistans bowling coach, believes that Yasir Shah struggled with the expectation of backing up his matchwinning display at Lords on the opening day of the second Test.Yasirs ten-wicket match haul was key to Pakistan securing their 75-run victory in the opening Test and propelled him to No. 1 in the world, but he finished the first day at Old Trafford with 0 for 111 from 31 overs as centuries from Alastair Cook and Joe Root led England to a commanding 314 for 4.Although he made a couple of deliveries grip on the Old Trafford surface - two, in particular, spun and bounced appreciably at Root and Cook - England were able to milk him far more comfortably than they had done last week.With only four frontline bowlers, Misbah-ul-Haq did not have many places to turn to for the lengthy spells required to allow him to rotate his three quicks. Yasir bowled 18 overs unchanged - split by the lunch interval - and by the time he was given a break, England had taken him for 69 runs and gone some way towards ensuring no immediate hangover from their poor display against at Lords.Sometimes the expectation does put you under pressure and you are trying to deliver the same performance, Mushtaq said. You start losing your basics, discipline and what he did in the last Test match. He got 10 wickets last time and maybe that momentum carried on and he forgot the basics.I think the ball wasnt coming nicely from his hand, he added. We did discuss it, but during a game its very hard for a coach to tell a player what to do. But we have good communication so I sent a couple of messages because the ball was coming out flatter with less spin. On a first-day pitch, the margin of error for a legspinner against good players like Root and Coook is very small.dddddddddddd.Root and Cook both used the word tempo when pinpointing a key difference to their approach than at Lords, finding the right balance between not allowing Yasir to settle but avoiding anything as reckless as Roots top-edged slog-sweep or Moeen Alis wild second-innings hack.It was just nice to see an improvement on the way we played him in the first game, Root said. Playing him with a straight bat, not going across the ball as much, on a day-one wicket it definitely made it a lot easier for us to take the risk out of it but still rotate the strike and score at a decent rate. We batted at a far better tempo than at Lords.Root, though, did admit a degree of nervousness when he brought out a strong slog-sweep against Yasir in the 51st over, with the captain at the other end, but this time it skimmed to the boundary rather than into the hands of a catcher. Such are the fine margins for batsmen.However, Mushtaq backed Yasir to respond positively from his tough day and play a role on a surface that Cook expects to break up later on. A worthy example to draw on, although not an occasion anyone associated with England cares to remember, is the Adelaide Test in 2006-07. Over the first two days of that match, England racked up 551 for 6 and Shane Warne took 1 for 167 before producing of his greatest displays on the final day to conjure a famous victory.I always believe as a good bowler you have to bowl good overs against good players to get them out. He didnt do that today but he will come out tomorrow, hes a strong guy, he wasnt hiding and thats a positive thing, Mushtaq said. ' ' '