Updated NLCS Home Run list

Phil Gurnee ♦ October 23, 2017 ♦ Leave a comment

Ha ha, quite an update this time. With Kiké doing something no LAD has ever done by going deep three times. My two favorite parts of the three home run game by Kiké was that he hit the three home runs off of three different pitchers. He hit the grand slam off of Hector Rondon a right hand pitcher.  Once Granderson was acquired it would have been a given that Granderson would have pinch hit for Hernandez in such an important spot. Except Granderson has been so bad, that Dave Roberts rolled the dice with Hernandez and it paid off making Kiké a part of Dodger postseason lore forever.

Some thoughts on the list:

• The three unlikely on this list for me are AJ Ellis,  Orlando Hudson,  and Mike Scioscia
• Rick Monday and Mike Scioscia hit the most important NLCS home runs until 2017
• Bill Madlock tore up 1985 just as Garvey tore up 1978 but hey – Kiké Hernandez
• The Dodgers haven’t hit a home run in an NLCS game after the fifth game since game six in 1985.  Still haven’t, because they didn’t need too in 2017
• Six different Dodgers hit home runs in the 2017 NLCS.
• Cody Bellinger was they youngest Dodger to ever hit an NLCS home run
• Andre Ethier and Justin Turner now have hit 3 NLCS home runs with both doing it in back to back seasons.