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Shohei Ohtani, Teoscar Hernández Made Dodgers Postseason History With HRs in Game 3

Ohtani hit his seventh home run of the postseason on Monday night.

Madison Williams

Shohei Ohtani hit his seventh home run of the postseason in Game 3 of the World Series.
Shohei Ohtani hit his seventh home run of the postseason in Game 3 of the World Series. / Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images
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Game 3 of the World Series between the Dodgers and the Blue Jays got off to a hot start thanks to two early home runs from Los Angeles stars Shohei Ohtani and Teoscar Hernández.

Hernández opened up the Dodgers' scoring by crushing a 412-foot home run in the second inning at Dodger Stadium. The crowd got on their feet and went wild for their right fielder as he pulled off an iconic bat flip before he rounded the bases. This was his fifth home run of the postseason.

Then, in the third inning, Ohtani hit a 389-foot home run to keep up the electricity in the stadium. It was the three-time MVP's seventh home run of the postseason.

By hitting at least five home runs each thus far into the postseason, Ohtani and Hernández made Dodgers postseason history on Monday night. They became the first pair of Dodgers teammates to each hit five homers in a single postseason, per MLB Stats.

Here's a look at the two home runs.

Ohtani is looking to make some Dodgers history himself during this year's postseason. The franchise's record for the most home runs hit in a single postseason is held by Corey Seager, when he launched eight homers in the 2020 playoffs. Ohtani has seven and could easily tie or break Seager's record this week during the World Series.

The Blue Jays matched the Dodgers’ feat with their own bit of history in the same game

Coincidentally, during Game 3, the Blue Jays matched the Dodgers by completing the exact same history. Thanks to Alejandro Kirk's incredible three-run home run in the fourth inning, two of Toronto's players (Vladimir Guerrero Jr. has six homers) have at least five home runs in a single postseason for the first time in franchise history, per MLB Stats.

Guerrero and Kirk could be joined by George Springer before too long as he has hit four home runs through the postseason so far. It's a pretty impressive playoff stretch completed by both the Blue Jays and the Dodgers in terms of home runs this year.

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Madison Williams
MADISON WILLIAMS

Madison Williams is a staff writer on the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated, where she specializes in tennis but covers a wide range of sports from a national perspective. Before joining SI in 2022, Williams worked at The Sporting News. Having graduated from Augustana College, she completed a master’s in sports media at Northwestern University. She is a dog mom and an avid reader.

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