Mookie Betts Hit the Dodgers' 10,000th L.A. Home Run

Max Muncy followed with No. 10,001 in Miami; the first of the L.A. era belonged to Dick Gray in 1958.

Mookie Betts hit a solo home run in the first inning on Saturday, and it counted as No. 10,000 of the Dodgers' Los Angeles era. The pitcher was Miami Marlins right-hander Tyler Phillips, and the milestone tally comes from the club itself, as True Blue LA reported.

It stayed round for about a minute.

Max Muncy batted next and homered too, back-to-back, which made the franchise total 10,001 before the top of the first was over. Muncy's 237 career home runs are the fifth-most in Dodgers history, the outlet reported.

Betts is at 172, which broke a tie with Pedro Guerrero for 11th on the franchise list. Counting only the years since the team left Brooklyn, Muncy ranks second and Betts seventh.

The first one, in 1958

Dodgers team historian Mark Langill wrote about the approaching milestone for the club, and he built it around an infielder most fans have never heard of. Dick Gray hit a two-run shot against the San Francisco Giants at Seals Stadium in San Francisco on April 16, 1958, per True Blue LA. It was the teams' second game on the west coast and the first home run by a Los Angeles Dodger.

Gray hit 11 of his 12 career home runs for the Dodgers, the outlet reported. He went deep again on April 18, 1958, at the Los Angeles Coliseum. That one was the first home home run of the L.A. era, which leaves Gray holding both firsts.

Those two swings and Saturday's bracket the whole Los Angeles run of this franchise, and nobody was counting out loud until the total got close to a zero-heavy number.

Betts didn't need the milestone to have a busy September. Saturday's homer was his fourth of the month and his 20th of the season, the ninth time in his career he's reached 20 in a year.

There's a smaller streak riding underneath it. When he crossed the plate in the first, he had scored a run in 11 straight games. That's one game short of the Los Angeles Dodgers record, which Betts already shares with himself — May 13 to 24, 2022 — and with Rafael Furcal, who ran his streak from late June into July of 2010.

So the arithmetic on Sunday is simple. One more run scored, in any inning, by any route, and Betts ties his own record for the third time.

Source: truebluela.com, retrieved September 13, 2026.