Mookie Betts tied the Major League Baseball record for most three-home run games for a career when he went deep twice in a Los Angeles Dodgers win over the San Diego Padres.
Aug.14 (UPI) — Mookie Betts tied the Major League Baseball record for most three-home run games for a career when he went deep twice in a Los Angeles Dodgers win over the San Diego Padres. Betts’ bombs came in the second, fourth and fifth innings of the 11-2 triumph Thursday at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. The Dodgers outfielder went 4 for 4 with five RBIs and four runs scored in the win. Betts is now hitting.319 with seven home runs and 15 RBIs this season. His trio of long balls on Thursday tied him with Sammy Sosa and Johnny Mize as the only players in league history to hit three home runs in a game six times during their careers. Mize was 37 years old when he had his sixth three-homer game in 1950 for the New York Yankees. Sosa was 33 when he did the same thing in 2002 for the Chicago Cubs. Betts,27, had his fifth career three-homer game on July 26,2019, during his final season with the Boston Red Sox. Betts had two three-homer games in 2016 and two more in 2018.
