Slumping Dodger J.D. Martinez got to the stadium early Tuesday to work on some things, and it paid off with a two-homer game.
Only two Dodgers have ever hit four homers in a game, Gil Hodges in 1950 against the Boston Braves and Shawn Green in 2002 against the Milwaukee Brewers. The odds of Martinez becoming the first player to hit four homers in a game twice were astronomical, but he was on a good pace.“I wish, I wish,” Martinez said with a laugh, when asked if his two early bombs triggered flashbacks of his four-homer game on Sept. 4, 2017. “But there’s a big difference between two and four.
The J.D. the Dodgers had for the first three weeks of this season wasn’t exactly an imposter, but it didn’t look like the guy the Dodgers hoped they’d get when they signed the 13-year veteran to a one-year, $10-million deal to be their every-day designated hitter in February. “Anyone who knows me knows that I’m not going to settle for [inconsistent]. I’m going to bust my butt and do everything I’ve got to do to be the player I can be.”
“I fell behind in the count and was able to see a couple pitches,” said Martinez, who had never faced Megill before. “I started feeling more comfortable as the at-bat went on.”
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