WATCH: Mookie Betts launches 51st-career leadoff home run

Kyle Madson

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WATCH: Mookie Betts launches 51st-career leadoff home run image

Mookie Betts has done it again. 

The Dodgers leadoff man opened the scoring Friday against the Reds with a solo shot off of Frankie Montas in the bottom of the first to give Los Angeles a 1-0 lead. It was the 51st leadoff home run of his career. 

Betts ranks fifth all-time in leadoff HRs, and is now just two behind Craig Biggio for fourth, and three behind Alfonso Soriano for third. 

Rickey Henderson is MLB's all-time leader in the category with 81 such HRs in his Hall-of-Fame career. Blue Jays outfielder George Springer is in second place at 57. He's one of only two other active player in the top 10 along with Charlie Blackmon of the Rockies.

 Betts this season now has eight home runs to go along with an extremely impressive slash line of .346/.444/.571. If he continues hitting at this clip he will catapult way up the all-time leadoff home runs list this year. 

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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.