LOS ANGELES — It is becoming harder and harder to believe Christian Walker when he says his power overload at Dodger Stadium is just one of those weird baseball feats.
Especially when the very next time he swings his bat, the ball soars 435 feet. And then he hits another ball over the fence two innings later.
Walker homered at Chavez Ravine in the first inning of Thursday’s 9-3 win over the Dodgers, his fourth of the three-game series. The ball jumped 109.6 mph off his bat, a straight laser that landed halfway up the bleachers.
He came up again in the third and crushed a home run to left field. It took two plate appearances for him to earn his second straight multi-homer performance with dingers in three straight at-bats.
“I’ve seen him get hot like this before, but nothing quite like this,” manager Torey Lovullo said. “He’s got a pure baseball swing, and he’s not missing the pitch he’s looking for. I know he clearly enjoys hitting in this environment, and he carried us. There’s probably no bigger fan of Christian Walker than me, because I know what he’s done to get to this point.”
The Dodgers intentionally walked him with first base open the next time he grabbed a bat.
The veteran’s home run count against the Dodgers in 2024 jumped to nine in nine games, seven in six games at Dodger Stadium.
Better yet, Walker has hit a home run in five straight games in Los Angeles, putting him in rare company historicall
Christian Walker has homered in each of his last 5 games AT the Dodgers
that’s tied for the longest single-season HR streak in games at the Dodgers, with:
