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| - Tampa Bay outfielder Manuel Margot gave it his best shot, but Clayton Kershaw and the Los Angeles Dodgers weren't about to let the Rays steal this one. Dodgers ace pitcher Kershaw nailed Margot as he tried to steal home in the fourth inning, preserving a one-run lead on the way to a 4-2 victory that put the Dodgers within one win of their first World Series triumph in more than three decades. Margot tried to steal home with two outs in the fourth, but Kershaw -- alerted by first baseman Max Muncy -- stepped off the rubber to avoid a balk and fired the ball to catcher Austin Barnes who tagged Margot out. "Soon as I saw him break, I sprinted towards Kersh and said 'Home! Home! Home!'" Muncy said. The bang-bang play came a night after the Dodgers lost game four when they were unable to make a play at the plate. Margot had walked to open the inning, stolen second and reached third on an error by second baseman Chris Taylor. Kershaw walked Hunter Renfroe but retired the next two batters to bring Kevin Kiermaier to the plate. "From the first pitch to KK, I knew they weren't really paying too much attention to me," Margot said of his decision to attempt the audacious move. "I thought I had a chance, and obviously it didn't work out that way." Kershaw had his back to third, his arms above his head when Muncy shouted at him. He stepped off the rubber and made the throw. Margot became the first runner caught stealing home in the World Series since the Minnesota Twins' Shane Mack in 1991. The Angels' Brad Fullmer in 2002 was the last player to steal home in the World Series, part of a double steal with Scott Spiezio who was on first base. The last straight steal of home in the World Series was by Jackie Robinson for the Brooklyn Dodgers in game one in 1955. Margot said the decision to go for the steal was "100 percent my decision. "I thought it was a good idea at the time," he said. "I thought I had a pretty good chance of potentially being safe." Rays manager Kevin Cash wasn't about to second-guess him. "I think we try to do things and make decisions that allow players to be athletic and be the athletes they are," Cash said. "If Manny felt he had a read on it for whatever reason it's tough for me to say yes or no," Cash said. "He's a talented base runner. He might be seeing something that certainly I'm not, or can't appreciate in the moment right there, and he's trying to do something to pick his team up. "If Manny felt he had an opportunity to score and really get in there, we should support it." bb/gph
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