Los Angeles Dodgers right fielder Mookie Betts (50) celebrates his solo home run with shortstop Corey Seager (5) during the fourth inning against the San Diego Padres at Dodger Stadium.
The National League West is still the Dodgers’ division to lose. Mookie Betts made sure the San Diego Padres remembered that on a night when he was presented with his 2019 Silver Slugger award, then produced a breakout performance for his new team worthy of the honor.
Betts smashed three home runs in the Dodgers' 11-2 win Thursday for the record-tying sixth time in his career. In doing so, he helped prevent the upstart Padres from leapfrogging the Dodgers in the standings and sending Los Angeles down to third place, below San Diego and the surprisingly strong division-leading Colorado Rockies.