Dodgers crush MLB-record 8 HRs in opening rout

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 a game and we’ll win every game,” Ross Stripling joked in the clubhouse after the game.

Friday’s starting pitcher, Stripling would probably be happy if the barrage continued for just one more day.

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Six different Dodgers had home runs against the Diamondbacks, led by Joc Pederson who had a pair of two-run home runs and a double. Hernandez drove in three runs with his two home runs.

The Dodgers hit back-to-back home runs twice – Hernandez and Austin Barnes in the fourth inning and Cody Bellinger and Hernandez in the seventh. They had a third home run in each of those innings – Corey Seager in the fourth and Max Muncy in the seventh.

For Seager, the home run was his first since last April 28 before Tommy John surgery (and eventually arthroscopic hip surgery too) ended his 2018 season.

“Hitting is contagious and our lineup is really deep,” Hernandez said. “When we’re not missing too many pitches like that, it adds pressure to their pitcher and that’s when they start making mistakes and when they make mistakes we have to take advantage of them.

“And that’s what we did today.”

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