Dodgers first to 10 wins

The Los Angeles Dodgers reached 10 wins before any other Major League Baseball team, getting there on April 11 with a 6-3 win over the Texas Rangers that pushed their record to 10-3. (mlb.com) That start came after Los Angeles opened 9-2 through its first 11 games, then beat Texas at Dodger Stadium behind six innings from Edwin Díaz and a home run from Teoscar Hernández. Major League Baseball’s standings listed the Dodgers alone at 10 wins on the morning of April 12. (mlb.com, mlb.com) The run included a 14-2 win at Toronto on April 6 and an 8-7 walk-off win over the Rangers on April 10, when Max Muncy hit three home runs, including the game-winner in the ninth inning. Dalton Rushing homered twice in the Toronto blowout, and Muncy became the second Dodgers player with a three-homer walk-off game. (mlb.com, mlb.com, mlb.com) Shohei Ohtani’s first home run of the 2026 season came earlier in that stretch, on April 3 in Washington, when he hit a 400-foot, three-run shot at 109.5 miles per hour in a 13-6 win over the Nationals. He added a leadoff homer on April 11 that extended his regular-season on-base streak to 45 games. (mlb.com, mlb.com, mlb.com) The Dodgers are defending World Series champions, and their first road trip to Toronto was framed by Major League Baseball as a rematch after Los Angeles won the title last November. Their fast start has come with early production from Ohtani, Hernández, Muncy and rookie catcher Dalton Rushing. (mlb.com, mlb.com) Alex Vesia supplied one of the more personal moments of the opening weeks on April 11, his 30th birthday. Major League Baseball lists Vesia’s birth date as April 11, 1996, and he finished the Dodgers’ 6-3 win over Texas with a scoreless ninth inning. (mlb.com, mlb.com) Vesia’s early-season appearances have drawn added attention after he and his wife, Kayla, spoke in February about the death of their newborn daughter, Sterling Sol, in late October. In Toronto on April 8, he also escaped a bases-loaded jam in a 4-1 win over the Blue Jays. (mlb.com, mlb.com) By April 12, the Dodgers were 10-3 and back at Dodger Stadium for the finale of the Rangers series. A first-to-10 milestone does not decide a season in April, but Los Angeles had already paired wins with the kind of star turns and small clubhouse moments that tend to travel fast. (mlb.com, mlb.com)