Mookie Betts Hits Insane Walk-Off, 3-Run Home Run as Dodgers Beat Tigers, Move to 4-0
The Los Angeles Dodgers just refuse to lose.
After being down 5-3 heading into the bottom of the 10th inning, the Dodgers scored five, including three on a walk-off, three-run home run by Mookie Betts, to take down the Detroit Tigers and move to an incredible 4-0 on the year.
Here’s a video of the Betts homer, his second home run of the night:
Betts missed over two weeks dealing with a brutal stomach illness. He lost nearly 20 pounds and wasn’t able to eat solid foods.
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And yet, Betts was in the lineup for Thursday’s Opening Day, and then broke out on Friday, going 3-for-5 with two home runs and four runs batted in.
Before Betts came up in the bottom of the 10th inning, Michael Conforto hit an RBI double, scoring Tommy Edman who was the ghost runner on second base. Then, after a groundout, Will Smith hit a pinch-hit RBI single on his 30th birthday, and Shohei Ohtani followed it up with a single.
With runners on second and third and one out, Betts didn’t let the game go on any longer, and continued L.A.’s undefeated season in dramatic fashion.
As for the rest of the game, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Jack Flaherty (now with the Tigers) had a pitchers duel. Yamamoto struck out a career-high 10 across five innings, allowing two runs. Flaherty was dominant through five innings, but then gave up a game-tying, two-run home run to Freddie Freeman.
The Dodgers took the lead in the bottom of the eighth inning on a Betts solo home run, but Tanner Scott blew the save in the top of the ninth.
However, three impressive defensive plays from Edman kept L.A. alive.
Luis Garcia pitched the 10th and allowed a two-run double that fell just under the glove of a diving Conforto.
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However, Conforto was the one to start the 10th inning rally, and Betts capped it off with the Dodgers’ first walk-off home run since Freddie Freeman’s walk-off grand slam in World Series Game 1.
When Do the Dodgers Play Next?
The Dodgers and Tigers play the series finale on Saturday, March 29. First pitch is at 6:10 p.m. PT.
Photo Credit: Kirby Lee-Imagn Images
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