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Dodger Blue > Featured > Dodgers Highlights: Shohei Ohtani Closer To 50-50; Back-To-Back-To-Back Home Runs
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Dodgers Highlights: Shohei Ohtani Closer To 50-50; Back-To-Back-To-Back Home Runs

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September 12, 2024
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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 11: Max Muncy #13 of the Los Angeles Dodgers after a home run against the Chicago Cubs in the first inning at Dodger Stadium on September 11, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. 776096911 (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)
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Shohei Ohtani set a new career high and the Los Angeles Dodgers made franchise history in their 10-8 win against the Chicago Cubs to avoid being swept at Dodger Stadium.

After Bobby Miller struggled to get the third out in the first inning, which saw the Cubs take a 2-0 lead, Ohtani immediately cut into the Dodgers’ deficit in the bottom half with his 47th home run of the season.

That set a new career high in home runs for Ohtani, which previously was the 46 he hit while with the Los Angeles Angels in 2021.

Back in the Dodgers lineup after missing four games in a row because of a left foot contusion, Teoscar Hernández kept the first inning alive with a two-out single.

No. 47 for Shohei!
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— Dodger Blue (@DodgerBlue1958) September 12, 2024

Tommy Edman can't be stopped.
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— Dodger Blue (@DodgerBlue1958) September 12, 2024

It's a (home run) party in the USA.
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— Dodger Blue (@DodgerBlue1958) September 12, 2024

That wound up being significant as Tommy Edman started a string of back-to-back-to-back home runs. Edman’s two-run shot was followed by solo home runs from Will Smith and Max Muncy. At the time that gave Edman three home runs in the past two games, and Muncy’s long ball came on his bobblehead night at Dodger Stadium.

We're home run guys. We bring the BOOM!
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— Dodger Blue (@DodgerBlue1958) September 12, 2024

No. 48 and counting.
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— Dodger Blue (@DodgerBlue1958) September 12, 2024

MVP doing MVP things.
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— Dodger Blue (@DodgerBlue1958) September 12, 2024

MR. TOM EDMAN.
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— Dodger Blue (@DodgerBlue1958) September 12, 2024

Ohtani further padded the Dodgers’ lead in the third inning with a two-run single. Ohtani also stole his 48th base of the season.

That gave Ohtani 12 games this season with at least one home run and one stolen base. He’s long broken Kirk Gibson’s Dodgers record for such games, and is now one away from tying Rickey Henderson’s MLB record.

In the eighth inning, Edman connected on a two-run homer after the Cubs had cut into their deficit, and it proved to be the difference for the Dodgers in their win.

Dodgers 4 home runs in one inning

Wednesday’s game was the second time this season the Dodgers hit four home runs in one inning, with the prior instance coming June 11 against the Texas Rangers. However, it was the first time in Dodgers franchise history they hit four home runs in the first inning.

Overall, the Dodgers have hit a franchise-record four home runs in one inning on seven different occasions. Such instances were Aug. 8, 2000 (fourth inning); Sept. 18, 2006 (ninth); Aug. 22, 2016 (fifth); Sept. 5, 2016 (fifth); Sept. 29, 2021 (eighth); June 11, 2024 (eighth) and Sept. 11, 2024 (first).

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