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Shohei Ohtani tied the Dodgers franchise report by homering in his fifth straight sport, taking Twins starter Chris Paddack deep within the first inning on Wednesday afternoon.
Ohtani had set his personal personal-best when he went deep for the fourth consecutive sport lower than 24 hours earlier within the ninth inning of Tuesday evening's sport. The 2-way famous person now has an NL-best 37 homers, and solely Cal Raleigh (39) has greater than him throughout the Majors.
His streak started towards the Brewers within the second sport again after the All-Star break on July 19, and one of the homers came in a game he also started on the mound.
Six different Dodgers have homered in 5 video games in a row — Roy Campanella, Shawn Inexperienced, Matt Kemp, Adrián González, Joc Pederson and Max Muncy — however no one in franchise historical past has ever reached six. The MLB record is eight straight games, carried out by Ken Griffey Jr., Don Mattingly and Dale Lengthy.