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It has zapped whatever momentum was building after the team’s two series-opening victories against the AL East-leading Blue Jays last weekend.

Vector officials in L.A. and San Bernardino counties said residents are asking them when they can bring a batch of zapped males to their neighborhood.

Technicians had zapped the insects, all males, with radiation in a nearby lab to make them sterile.

They zapped nanocrystals of ruthenium dioxide with high-energy radiation, and then watched the changes wrought by the acidic environment inside the cell.

He said the experience had "zapped all enjoyment from what should have been the most special purchase of our lives together".