MLB: power and plays
Early‑season MLB clips show big offense and highlight plays — the Dodgers were the first club to reach 10 wins, and there were notable homers from Yordan Álvarez (back‑to‑back shots), Cal Raleigh, and a first from Bo Bichette with the Mets in recent clips. Defensive highlights also circulated, including Fernando Tatís Jr.’s slick 6‑4‑3 double play and a standout moment from Lance McCullers Jr. in separate viral clips. (x.com 1) (x.com 2) (x.com 3) (x.com 4) (x.com 5)
The Los Angeles Dodgers became the first Major League Baseball team to reach 10 wins on April 10, while early April clips across the league turned into a rolling highlight reel. (mlb.com) Los Angeles got there in dramatic fashion: Max Muncy hit three home runs, including a two-out walk-off shot in the ninth inning, in an 8-7 win over the Texas Rangers at Dodger Stadium on Friday, April 10. The victory pushed the Dodgers to 10-3. (mlb.com) (espn.com) Houston slugger Yordan Álvarez supplied another of the week’s loudest swings, hitting a three-run homer in the eighth inning of a 9-6 loss to Seattle on April 10. Álvarez had already opened 2026 with five home runs and a 1.266 on-base plus slugging percentage through 14 games. (rotowire.com) (espn.com) Seattle catcher Cal Raleigh added to the same burst of offense with a two-run home run in the bottom of the first inning against Houston on April 11. Raleigh had ended his own season-opening home run drought five days earlier with his first homer of 2026 against Jacob deGrom and the Rangers. (mlb.com 1) (mlb.com 2) In New York, Bo Bichette hit his first home run as a Met on April 11, a two-run shot to right field that cut the Athletics’ lead to 5-1 in the fifth inning. The clip spread quickly because Bichette’s first Mets homer came less than three weeks into the regular season and gave a concrete early marker in his first year with the club. (mlb.com) The defensive plays traveled almost as fast as the home runs. Houston right-hander Lance McCullers Jr. snared a 102.4 mile-per-hour comebacker from Randy Arozarena and turned a double play in the first inning against Seattle on April 11. (mlb.com) McCullers’ clip landed in a larger comeback story. Major League Baseball’s Astros coverage said last week that McCullers had just delivered his best start in three years after multiple surgeries and long rehabilitation work. (mlb.com) San Diego’s Fernando Tatís Jr. also drew attention for defense after making his first career start at second base on April 11 against Colorado. Major League Baseball said Tatís, a two-time Platinum Glove Award-winning right fielder, handled the new spot in the Padres’ 9-5 win at Petco Park. (mlb.com) Twelve to fifteen games into the season, the standings are still thin and noisy, but the clips already show the shape of April: the Dodgers scoring in bunches, stars like Álvarez and Raleigh driving balls out, and defenders like Tatís and McCullers turning routine innings into shareable plays. (mlb.com 1) (mlb.com 2)
