Jun 20, 2017; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Corey Seager (5) hits a solo home run in the fourth inning against the New York Mets at Dodger Stadium. Photo Credit: Gary A. Vasquez-USA TODAY Sports
LOS ANGELES — Corey Seager homered three times and drove in six runs, leading the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 12-0 victory over the New York Mets on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium.
Seager went 4-for-5 and recorded the second three-homer game of his career. Seager hit three home runs against the Atlanta Braves on June 3, 2006.
Cody Bellinger, who hit two home runs in Monday’s win over New York, and Yasmani Grandal also went deep for the Dodgers (46-26), who have won five in a row and 11 of their past 12 games.
The five homers tied a season high for Los Angeles.
Dodgers right-hander Brandon McCarthy threw six scoreless innings and limited the Mets to four hits. McCarthy (6-3) struck out four, walked one and hit a batter. Reliever Brock Stewart fanned four, walked one and did not allow a hit during the final three innings for his first save.
Mets starter Robert Gsellman served up four of the Dodgers’ long balls. Gsellman (5-5) lasted 4 1/3 innings, yielding eight runs (seven earned) on nine hits with two strikeouts and three walks.
The Mets (31-39) have dropped five of their past six contests.
Logan Forsythe reached on a leadoff single in the first inning before Seager smoked a 2-1 Gsellman pitch over the wall in center for a 2-0 Los Angeles lead with no outs.
Bellinger clubbed his team-leading 22nd home run, a two-run shot to left, for a 4-0 advantage. It was the third homer in the past two games and the 10th in the last 10 contests for Bellinger, who is only the second Dodger to accomplish the latter feat. Shawn Green was the only other Dodger to do it in May 2002.
Seager hit his second home run in the fourth on a full count for a 5-0 Dodgers’ edge.
Grandal added a solo shot in the fifth for a 6-0 lead. Joc Pederson’s ground-rule double scored Yasiel Puig in the inning to make it 7-0.
Three batters later, Seager struck again with a three-run blast to give the Dodgers a 10-0 lead. It was the fifth multi-homer game for Seager. All of them have occurred at Dodger Stadium.
NOTES: The Dodgers signed 21 of their 40 picks in the 2017 draft, according to MLB.com. However, none of the 21 included their top three picks: Vanderbilt OF Jeren Kendall, RHP Morgan Cooper of the University of Texas and C Connor Wong from the University of Houston. … Mets RHP Tyler Pill (0-2, 3.75 ERA) will oppose Dodgers LHP Rich Hill (3-3, 5.14) in the third contest of the four-game series on Wednesday.
