Dodgers’ home run barrage continues as they sweep Padres

LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers won the World Series, 12 games to seven.

Picking up close wherever they near disconnected Wednesday nighttime – seriously, close wherever they near disconnected – Mookie Betts and Corey Seager deed back-to-back location runs successful the archetypal inning. Justin Turner and AJ Pollock did the aforesaid successful the 4th inning and the Dodgers homered their mode past the San Diego Padres again, 8-3, Thursday night.

After hitting six location runs successful Wednesday’s stirring comeback, the Dodgers deed 5 much Thursday.

The triumph completed a 3rd consecutive bid expanse of the Padres by the Dodgers. After losing 7 of their archetypal 10 “World Series” matchups with the Padres – Justin Turner’s outpouring hyperbole astir the situation presented by the Padres – the Dodgers bushed their confederate neighbors 9 successful a row, adding to a second-half illness that volition permission the much-ballyhooed 2021 Padres (78-81) without a winning grounds to amusement for each the preseason hype.

The Dodgers (103-56), meanwhile, are hooked up successful the down-to-the-wire, high-speed part contention that was predicted for them this twelvemonth – lone with the San Francisco Giants (105-54), who swept Arizona with a 5-4 walk-off triumph connected Thursday, mounting the pace.

The back-to-back bombs by Betts and Seager gave the Dodgers six location runs successful a span of 10 sheet appearances against the Padres, stretching backmost to Wednesday’s four-home tally rally successful the eighth inning – 7 homers successful 14 sheet appearances if you agelong it backmost to Betts’ ‘plus-one’ homer successful the seventh inning of that comeback.

When Turner and Pollock besides went back-to-back successful the 4th inning, it was the Dodgers’ 3rd acceptable of back-to-back location runs successful a five-inning span – Max Muncy and Pollock successful the eighth inning Wednesday, Betts and Seager successful the archetypal Thursday past Turner and Pollock successful the fourth. Pollock’s location tally (his 3rd successful 2 games) was the Dodgers’ ninth successful a six-inning stretch.

While the Dodgers won for frequency, Fernando Tatis Jr. took apical honors for distance.

The Padres’ slumping shortstop broke an 0-for-12 agelong that featured 9 strikeouts by making a 1-and-0 slider from Tony Gonsolin regret its precise existence.

Tatis crushed the hanger implicit the near tract pavilion and retired of the stadium (possibly clipping the pavilion extortion connected the way). Estimated astatine 467 feet, the lone longer location tally astatine Dodger Stadium since the dawn of the Statcast epoch (2015) was a 475-foot thrust by the Miami Marlins’ iteration of Giancarlo Stanton that year.

Tatis’ awesome thrust made him the 5th hitter ever to deed a shot retired of Dodger Stadium. Hall of Famer Willie Stargell is the lone left-hander to bash it (and helium did it twice). Tatis, Stanton, Mark McGwire and Mike Piazza are the lone hitters to wide the left-field pavilion.

It was the past spasm of a dying squad – though the Dodgers person to anticipation the Padres are revivified capable to instrumentality astatine slightest 2 games from the Giants successful their season-ending bid by the bay this weekend.

The Dodgers took a land-based way to blowing the crippled unfastened successful the sixth, scoring 3 runs with nary a location run. Singles by Trea Turner, Will Smith, Justin Turner and Cody Bellinger with a sacrifice alert by Pollock mixed successful sufficed.

Seager’s 2nd location tally of the nighttime (a solo homer disconnected Padres reliever Austin Adams successful the seventh) capped the night.

Last year’s NLCS and World Series MVP is getting a moving commencement this year. Since the commencement of August, Seager is batting .323 (61 for 189) with 15 doubles, 11 location runs and 33 RBIs.

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