Dodgers News: Dodgers Only Team in MLB Postseason History to have Three Separate Three Home Run Games

LOS ANGELES, CA—The Los Angeles Dodgers are heading back to the World Series after taking care of business against the Milwaukee Brewers, sweeping the best-of-seven National League Championship Series.

However, the story for Game Four was the show that three-time (soon to be four-time) MVP Shohei Ohtani put on to send his team back to the Fall Classic for the second consecutive season.

While on the mound, Ohtani set the stage by tossing six scoreless innings while picking up his first double-digit strikeout game as a Dodger. He also woke up his bat by slugging not one, not two, but three home runs, en route to securing his NLCS MVP nod.

However, the night set another millstone in the history books as now the Dodgers are the only team in Major League Baseball postseason history to have three players have three separate three-home run games, with Ohtani joining utilityman Chris Taylor and Kiké Hernández.

Kiké Hernández 2017 NLCS Game Five

After going up three games to none in the 2017 NLCS, the Dodgers would drop Game Four but look to rebound in Game Five and secure their first World Series berth since the 1988 season.

They’d do just that thanks to Clayton Kershaw on the mound, who would fire six innings of one-run ball, but the story of the night was what Kiké Hernández did at the plate, slugging three separate home runs, including a grand slam in the third inning, an actual knock-out punch.

That would be one of three home runs Hernández would hit on the night, including one in the second inning, one in the third inning, and another in the ninth inning to score the Dodgers 1’ 11th run of the game.

Remarkably, Kiké Hernández would not come away with the NLCS MVP award, as that would be given to both Justin Turner and Chris Taylor.

Chris Taylor 2021 NLCS Game Five

Speaking of Chris Taylor, he’s the second member of the Dodgers’ three-home run club in franchise history after blasting three of his own in Game Five of the 2021 NLCS against the Atlanta Braves.

That October, Taylor found his power stroke as the utilityman would blast four home runs that postseason, including his game-winning walk-off home run in the National League Wild Card game against the St. Louis Cardinals.

With the Dodgers trailing 3-1 in the series, Chris Taylor put the offense on his back, driving in six of the Dodgers’ eleven runs while hitting three of the team’s five home runs that night.

It would extend the season another day, but the team would fall to the eventual World Series champion Braves in Game Six in Atlanta.

Shohei Ohtani 2025 NLCS Game Four

Concluding the last was last night’s historic effort by two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani, who slugged three massive home runs en route to the Dodgers ’ clinching win of the NLCS.

Ohtani, the starter on the mound, fired off three consecutive strikeouts before settling in at the plate, hitting a lead-off home run off veteran left-hander José Quintana to start the scoring, a feat that had not been done before in regular or postseason history.

After that, Ohtani would follow up his third plate appearance with a mammoth home run that would clear the right field pavilion, becoming just the third hitter to do so in Dodger Stadium history, joining Willie Stargell and Phillies designated hitter Kyle Schwarber, who did so in Game Three of the NLDS this season.

The third Ohtani home run came in the seventh inning, off All-Star closer Trevor Megill, which would put the Dodgers up 5-0, all but securing the win as the crowd at Chavez Ravine went bananas after what they just saw.

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