Los Angeles Dodgers: Going for walk-off number six in a row

The Los Angeles Dodgers have won their last five games at Dodger Stadium via walk-off and can extend that streak against the San Diego Padres.

The 2019 Los Angeles Dodgers are starting to feel like one of the greatest, most historic teams in Major League Baseball history. The last thing we want to do is jinx it, but man, has this team been something else.

The Dodgers already accomplished something that had never been done before by having rookies hit back-to-back walk-off home runs. Then, to raise the record even higher, Will Smith joined in on the fun and made it three in a row, establishing a record that may never be broken.

Not only that, but the Dodgers did another thing for the first time in MLB history by having five consecutive walks with no outs in between to walk-off on Tuesday. They were down to their last strike three times!

All of this is part of a five-game streak at Dodger Stadium with a walk-off win. They are the fifth team in MLB history to accomplish such a feat and could join the 2000 Kansas City Royals if they make it a sixth game in a row on Fourth of July.

And to top it all off, the Los Angeles Dodgers have a 36-9 (.800) win percentage at home. To put that in perspective, a .800 home winning percentage at the end of the year would be the fourth-best all-time and the first time a team finished with such a record since the 1961 New York Mets.

There is still a lot of baseball left to play but that is getting historic.

A win on Thursday would move the Dodgers to the second-best home record of all-time as the offense looks to once again come up clutch. Whether it is a walk-off or a blowout, the Dodgers are certainly looking to make a statement against the San Diego Padres.

And as part of our Los Angeles Dodgers Beat the Streak series, this is who we think can get at least one base hit on Fourth of July.

Jason’s pick (Current streak: 9): Alex Verdugo

As I look to extend our streak to 10 games on Fourth of July, I turn to a favorable left-handed matchup against a right-handed pitcher in Dinelson Lamet; none other than the kid himself, Alex Verdugo.

Verdugo does not have a hit in his two at-bats lifetime against Lamet but that small sample size does not scare me away from the matchup. The important thing that I am taking into account is the fact that Verdugo had an uncharacteristic day and went 0-5 on Wednesday.

Someone who hits .300 is not going to have these days back-to-back, so statistically, Verdugo is due for at least one base hit on Thursday. I do not need anything special, all I need is one single to extend the streak to double-digits for the second time this year.