ARLINGTON, Texas — Corey Seager certainly made the Arizona Diamondbacks pay when they did pitch to him.
For the second game in a row, Seager homered on the first pitch of the next at-bat after getting intentionally walked and the reigning champion Texas Rangers swept a quick two-game rematch of last year’s World Series.
“When he’s hot, he barrels up anything thrown near the zone,” Diamondbacks Manager Torey Lovullo said.
Seager homered for the eighth time in eight games, Dane Dunning threw five scoreless innings and the Rangers won 6-1 on Wednesday.
The Diamondbacks intentionally walked Seager with two outs and an open base in the third after the Rangers had taken a 1-0 lead on Jonah Heim’s RBI double. When Seager came up with a runner on and two outs in the fifth, the World Series MVP lined a 97.7 mph inside cutter on the first pitch into the right-field seats to make it 4-0.
“Extremely impressive,” Dunning said.
