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Opening Day could not have been a more powerful success for the Dodgers, who hit eight home runs and got six strong innings from Hyun-Jin Ryu in a 12-5 rout of the Arizona Diamondbacks on Thursday afternoon. The eight home runs are the MLB record for a season-opening game and tie the franchise record for any day, not just Opening Day, previously set on May 23, 2002 in Milwaukee (also known as Shawn Green’s four-home run game). “We were wondering if it was a record,” said second baseman Kiké Hernandez, who hit two of the record-breakers. “Cool.” “Eight home runs […]