Mookie Betts home run puts exclamation point on Dodgers big game vs. Pirates

Kyle Madson

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The Dodgers offense started to come to life Wednesday night in Pittsburgh. It was all the way back Thursday and a big game for LA's bats got an emphatic punctuation mark by shortstop Mookie Betts.

Betts came up in the top of the fifth with runners on the corners and LA leading 7-4 after plating three runs in the frame. He got a 1-1 sinker and jumped all over it, crushing it 410 feet out to straightaway center for a three-run homer that put the Dodgers up 10-4.

It was Betts' 10th home run of the year and the third of the game for the Dodgers. Freddie Freeman had a three-run homer in the first inning, and Teoscar Hernandez led off the fifth with a solo shot. 

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Kyle Madson

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Kyle Madson neither likes writing about himself nor writing in the third person. Nevertheless, he persists. While Kyle has spent most of his writing career covering the NFL’s Tennessee Titans and San Francisco 49ers, he’s never lost the love of baseball that has resided in the deepest recesses of his soul since he began playing T-ball at 4 years old (no matter how hard John Fisher has tried). Aside from writing, Kyle also hosts a radio show, the Insiders, with James Ham on ESPN 1320 in Sacramento. When he’s not being a sports dork, Kyle loves being a normal dork and traveling, visiting museums, diving further into K-Pop fandom (#SKZ) and hanging out with his wife and cats. Don’t follow him on Twitter or Instagram at @KyleAMadson.