Mookie Betts homered twice, went 4-for-4 and drove in four runs while leading the Los Angeles Dodgers past the host Kansas City Royals 9-3 on Friday night.
Leading off the game, Betts hammered a 3-1 fastball 422 feet to left, his ninth leadoff homer of the year and 45th of his career. The blast came on the fifth pitch in the major league career of Royals starter Alec Marsh.
After Jason Heyward's one-out RBI double in the fourth, Betts' sharp single to center scored Heyward for a 4-1 advantage. In the fifth, the Dodgers' J.D. Martinez hit a sacrifice fly that scored Will Smith, who had tripled to lead off the frame. Originally ruled a foul ball, Smith's fly near the right-field line was changed on appeal.
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