Mookie Betts hits 30 home runs from the leadoff spot, for a second time

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The Dodgers stranded seven base runners through the first four innings. The Dodgers scored 13 runs against the Rockies in the series opener, but they did so without hitting any home runs. On Friday night, the Dodgers’ offense scored all but one of their five runs on a couple of two-run home runs against Chad Kuhl. Ryan Braun is the most recent player to reach the 30–30 club in multiple seasons .

The power-hitting leadoff batters trickled in over the next 20 years, but the explosion came over the last five full seasons. Mookie Betts led off the top of the fourth with a booming triple to the gap. Ryan Feltner, out of the bullpen, got thrown into the fire for his first career relief appearance.

Three grand slams by a team in one game

His 18 total bases tied Joe Adcock for the second most in a single game. Hamilton is also the only player on this list to have each of his four home runs of the two-run variety. Going into the last day of the regular season, the Dodgers had an impressive roster with three players already hitting over 30 home runs in the year. Left fielder Dusty Baker hoped to join the list as he entered the matchup with the Houston Astros with 29 home runs. The Dodgers became the first team in MLB history with four players to hit at least 30 homers in the same season. A classic slugfest in which the Phillies defeated the Cubs, 18-16, featured a historic day from one of the best to play the game.

Betts also turned the trick in his MVP season, hitting 32 homers while batting first for the Red Sox in 2018. Betts is one of just four players to have at least two 30 leadoff-homer seasons, along with Alfonso Soriano , George Springer, and Francisco Lindor. The Dodgers picked up right where they left off Thursday night when they took an early 2-0 lead for the third night in a row. Trea Turner stayed aggressive, and he extended his hitting streak to 16 games with a one-out single in the first. Then Will Smith crushed a two-run home run to left field off Kuhl.

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That’s already good for third place in franchise history, five behind Pederson, with Davey Lopes and his 99 leadoff home runs holding down the top spot. In as many innings, the Dodgers hit another two-run home run off Kuhl. Trayce Thompson took the struggling right-hander deep to center for his fourth home run in his second stint with the Dodgers. Julio Urías pitched a solid seven innings and only allowed two runs on four hits in the 5-4 Dodgers win. Craig Kimbrel had another rough night in the ninth when he allowed two runs, but the Dodgers hung on for the victory.

Eligibility requires that a player has been retired for at least five seasons or deceased for at least six months, disqualifying any active players and those recently retired. Colavito took the Orioles deep four times in four consecutive at-bats to record 16 total bases. Before he clubbed his fourth long ball, only Lou Gehrig and Bobby Lowe had hit their four homers in consecutive at-bats. Hamilton was feeling it on a beautiful spring night, going deep for two-run homers in the first, third, seventh and eighth frames.

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In arguably the craziest way to achieve the feat, Delahanty hit two of his four home runs inside the park, according to Baseball Almanac. He is the only member of the four-homer club to even have one inside-the-park homer as part of his feat. Hodges homered off the great Warren Spahn in the second inning, took Normie Roy deep in the third before clubbing a two-run homers off Bob Hall in the sixth and Johnny Antonelli in the eighth. Colavito was a prolific home run hitter in his prime, topping 20 homers 11 times, eclipsing 30 homers seven times and 40 homers on three occasions. The legendary Mays got going early, crushing a solo home run in the first inning. He then went deep again in the third, sixth and eighth innings in what resulted in an eight-RBI day and 16 total bases.

One of Baker’s opportunities to join the 30 home run club that night came in the sixth inning. The home run made the Dodgers the first team in MLB history to field a roster with four players that hit at least 30 home runs in a single season. In Major League Baseball , the 30–30 club is the group of batters who have collected thirty home runs and thirty stolen bases in a single season.

Seerey had a brief career, lasting in the big leagues for seven seasons. He hit a total of 86 home runs over the course of his playing days. Adcock homered off four pitchers that fateful night at Ebbets Field and even added a double. He finished the game with 18 total bases, which at the time was a Major League record. However, that season would soon be forgotten as Baker would hit a career-best .876 OPS in 604 plate appearances in 1977.

Barry Bonds joined the 30–30 club in five seasons, a record he shares with his father Bobby. It was punctuated by Finley’s walk-off grand slam that gave the Dodgers an NL-best 53rd comeback win of the season, setting a franchise record that was previously held by the 1953 Brooklyn team . One-eighth of Hodges' homers that season came in one game, as he clubbed 32 home runs for the year.

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Don Mattingly hit all six grand slams of his career in 1987. To use individual functions (e.g., mark statistics as favourites, set statistic alerts) please log in with your personal account. As of October 2022, Duke Snider tops the ranking of the Los Angeles Dodgers all-time home run leaders with 389 home runs throughout his career. Snider is followed within this ranking by Gil Hodges with a total of 361 home runs recorded throughout his career. No team had ever had four players with 30 or more home runs in a season but the Dodgers were positioned to achieve that feat. After that, no leadoff hitter reached 30 home runs until Brady Anderson in 1996, a season that came out of nowhere in many ways.

Betts has 20 multi-homer games out of the leadoff spot, passing Soriano for the most in MLB history. Lowe was not a slugger by any means, hitting just 71 homers in 18 seasons throughout his Major League career. Gehrig hit another rocket in the ninth inning that flew to deep center field but was caught short of the wall. He finished the season with 34 home runs and hit 493 homers during his 17-year career.

Alfonso Soriano reached the 30–30 club in four seasons, second only to Bobby and Barry Bonds. Willie Mays became the first player to achieve multiple 30–30 seasons and accomplish them in back-to-back seasons. On Oct. 2, 2004, the Dodgers hosted the Giants in their penultimate game of the season. They were trailing 3-0 when the bottom of the ninth inning began and mounted an improbable rally to clinch the NL West.

In the tables below, players and teams denoted in boldface are still actively contributing to the record noted, while denotes a player's rookie season. The other player is an outfielder who started his career and played 625 games for the Atlanta Braves. He was then traded to the Los Angeles, where he had his greatest success. Betts is the second Dodger to hit 30 leadoff homers in a season. He’s three behind Joc Pederson, who hit 33 of his 36 home runs in 2019 while batting first. Thirty home runs, more than 200 hits, the fourth 20–20–20–20 player in the history of the game.

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The stars have aligned for these Dodgers in the power department in 2019. And the last time LA had this much power concentrated amongst four players was all the way back in 1997, 20 years after the aforementioned four-member 30-home run club. As good a player as Baker was during his playing career, he would find great success as a manager. If and when the 2020 season begins, Baker will seek the elusive World Series title that would almost ensure him a Hall-of-Fame induction as a manager.

Grichuk yanked a Kimbrel breaking ball down the left field line for a two-run single. A great catch by Thompson in left field to end the anxiety-riddled conclusion. In baseball, the club is for ballplayers who belt 30 home runs and steal 30 bases in the same season. Horner opened the scoring with a solo shot in the second inning and hit another solo homer in the fourth. He then crushed a three-run long ball in the fifth and finished off his remarkable day with another solo homer in the ninth. The 27-year-old Gennett had three home runs on the season before blasting a grand slam in the third inning, a two-run homer in the fourth, a solo shot in the sixth and another two-run long ball in the eighth.