by Rowan Kavner
The number of the day is 100.
For the third time in the last five seasons (and four full seasons), the Los Angeles Dodgers have won 100 games. They reached the mark in a 3–0 shutout win Sunday afternoon in Arizona in which Corey Seager and Trea Turner each recorded their 100th career home runs.
“To go out and compete and grind and play like that every year, to win 100 games, it’s not easy,” said Seager, who has played a major role on each of those 100-win teams in 2017, 2019 and 2021.
All three runs scored in the Dodgers’ final road game of the regular season came courtesy of solo home runs from their middle infielders, who are playing some of their best baseball of the year during the most important stretch of the Dodger schedule.
Seager and Turner provided starter Julio Urías an early advantage with back-to-back homers in the first inning. It was Turner’s third straight at-bat with a home run after his two-homer Saturday night performance.
Seager’s 100th would occur two innings later, when his second home run of the day traveled 464 feet. It was the longest homer of his career and the third longest by a Dodger this season. Both players got their milestone home runs balls back, which Seager appreciated.
“That one will stay with me,” Seager said. “That will go home, go in a case somewhere.”
It was the first time a pair of teammates collected their 100th career home runs in the same game since Sept. 27, 2005, when Jay Gibbons and Melvin Mora each hit the milestone mark with the Orioles. The only other time it occurred in Dodger history was July 17, 1977, by Dusty Baker and Ron Cey.
The accomplishment came for two of the hottest-hitting Dodger players. The middle infielders lead the team in hits and homers in September. Each player has gone deep five times during the month, while Seager is 28-for-80 (.350) and Turner is 30-for-92 (.326). Seager has 15 walks and only seven strikeouts in that time.
“Corey’s been swinging the bat extremely well over the last three weeks, really well, taking great at-bats,” said manager Dave Roberts. “Trea just kind of continued what he did last night. Getting that production from those two guys is just going to make us that much better.”
That was all Urías needed to secure his Major League-leading 19th win of the year, tossing five scoreless innings against the Diamondbacks. No other Major League starter has more than 16 wins.
The Dodgers have won each of Urías’ last 10 starts. He hasn’t suffered a loss in any of his last 16 starts, going 10–0 with a 2.07 ERA in that time, and is now 19–3 on the season with one regular season start remaining.
Urías will have the chance to become the first Dodger 20-game winner since Clayton Kershaw in 2014, which Urías described as “incredible.” He would also be the fourth pitcher from Mexico to accomplish the feat, joining Fernando Valenzuela (1986), Teddy Higuera (1986) and Esteban Loaiza (2003).
“The body of work, Julio, winning 19 games right now, it’s special,” Roberts said. “The object of the game still is to win, and wins matter.”
The Dodgers have 100 of them on the year, which would typically be enough to waltz to a division crown. This year would be the exception.
The Dodgers still chase the Giants by two games with six to go, despite holding the second best record in baseball.
“One hundred wins, it’s something to be proud of,” Roberts said. “But we understand we’ve still got to win six more ballgames.”
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