Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts, and Freddie Freeman each hit a home run in succession to start Saturday’s game for the Los Angeles Dodgers against the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Ohtani, on a full count, hit his 44th homer of the season with a 420-foot blast to dead center off Diamondbacks starter Merrill Kelly. Betts followed with his 14th home run on an 0-1 pitch, and Freeman hit his 19th of the season on the very next pitch, sending it to right-center.
It was the first time these three players had homered one after another.
In the bottom of the first, Corbin Carroll hit an inside-the-park home run against Dodgers starter Gavin Stone. Carroll scored easily as center fielder Kevin Kiermaier jumped at the wall and the ball bounced back toward the infield.
Carroll’s homer was his 19th of the season and his fifth in the last five games. He hit two homers in Wednesday’s game against the New York Mets.
The Diamondbacks led 4-3 after the first inning, thanks to Lourdes Gurriel Jr.’s two-run double and Eugenio Suarez’s sacrifice fly.
