Seager’s 3‑run homer

Corey Seager came back to Dodger Stadium on April 10 and turned a 1-0 Dodgers lead into a 3-1 Texas Rangers lead with one swing in the top of the third inning. The ball left his bat at 108.8 miles per hour, traveled 409 feet to center field, and came off a 97.7 mile per hour four-seam fastball from Tyler Glasnow. (mlb.com) That detail matters because Seager was not hitting a mistake lob. Tyler Glasnow’s pitch was a high-velocity fastball, and Seager still got it in the air at a 27-degree launch angle with two outs in the inning. (mlb.com) Seager knows that park better than almost anyone in the Rangers lineup because the Los Angeles Dodgers drafted him in the first round in 2012, and he spent seven seasons in Los Angeles before signing with Texas. Baseball-Reference lists him as the 18th overall pick and a Dodger from his 2015 debut through 2021. (baseball-reference.com) This was not his first big swing in that building as a visitor. On June 12, 2024, Seager hit another go-ahead three-run homer at Dodger Stadium, and Texas won that game 3-2. (espn.com) Friday’s homer felt like the same script for a while because it gave Texas an early edge in a game between two clubs expected to contend in October. ESPN’s game recap shows Seager’s blast as the swing that put the Rangers ahead before Los Angeles spent the rest of the night chasing. (espn.com) Then the game flipped into something much stranger. Max Muncy hit three home runs for the Dodgers, and his third was a two-out solo shot in the ninth inning that gave Los Angeles an 8-7 walk-off win. (espn.com) So Seager’s homer ended up being both huge and not enough. It was the cleanest early punch in the game, but it got swallowed by a night where Muncy matched him with even bigger timing and the Dodgers erased the Rangers’ lead at the finish. (espn.com) Seager has been one of Texas’ central bats again in 2026, with 4 home runs and 10 runs batted in through his first 13 games on ESPN’s player log. That made the swing at Dodger Stadium look less like a nostalgia clip and more like the normal version of Corey Seager. (espn.com)