Here is the original item:
Baking in his hot car during rush-hour traffic, Joe drank the last few drops
of his iced tea. And prayed that he could make the costly repair to his
broken air conditioner with this week's paycheck.
You chose to use a comma to connect the lonely verb fragment to the main clause in front, like this:
Baking in his hot car during rush-hour traffic, Joe drank the last few drops
of his iced tea,
and prayed that he could make the costly repair to his broken air
conditioner with this week's paycheck.
Unfortunately, you do not need any punctuation to connect these two parts. Review the rules.