Will Smith followed with a single to left. Rengifo started the game at second base and replaced injured left fielder Jo Adell in the second. Luis Rengifo was playing deep and the ball dropped in, scoring Miguel Vargas and James Outman. Taking a page from Betts, Max Muncy led off with his 21st homer over the wall in center.īetts was intentionally walked to load the bases with two outs to get to Freeman, who hit a slicing double to left field. The Dodgers extended their lead to 6-0 with five more runs in the second. For 30, 35 games now, it's been that special.” “Sometimes breaks can come at the wrong time, but I think Mookie found something in his swing and he's been able to lock it in.
“Seems like every swing he's barreling up the ball,” fellow All-Star Freddie Freeman said.
His 46th career leadoff homer tied Philadelphia’s Jimmy Rollins for seventh on the career list. Betts tied the mark for first-half homers set by San Francisco's Bobby Bonds in 1973. The two-way superstar had a single in the first and a triple, his MLB-leading sixth, in the third.īetts’ 408-foot solo shot, his 26th of the season, came on the second pitch of the game by Reid Detmers. He came up a double shy of hitting for the cycle. The Angels gave up 11 hits in an 11-4 loss Friday.Īngels All-Star Shohei Ohtani hit his major league-leading 32nd homer, a 433-foot, two-run blast in the seventh. It was their 10th consecutive loss in the Freeway Series, the club's longest-ever skid against the Dodgers. The Angels dropped their season-high fifth straight to fall below. “Once we get going again, there's another finish line at the end of October.”
“We wanted to finish strong through the first half,” Roberts said. 500 with a record of 51-38, a half-game behind NL West-leading Arizona. The Dodgers head into the All-Star break a season-high 13 games over. “I think Mookie might be the only guy that wants to play through the break,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Dodgers ended the first half of the season with a bang.Īll-Star Mookie Betts hit his 10th leadoff homer - tying the most in the first half in major league history - and Los Angeles homered five times for the second straight game to beat the slumping Angels 10-5 on Saturday night.
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