That brought up Yelich, who belted a two-run homer into the second deck in right to up the advantage to 6-1. The homer was Yelich's 19th, tying his 144-game output in 2023.

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That's something you don't see every day.

Shohei Ohtani holds the Dodgers record with 10 straight games with at least one run batted in, setting the mark last June 16-26. Five others reached nine straight games, including Matt Kemp in 2011.

Payden Robertson showed concentration and grit when he came to bat Friday. After one strike, the 3 1/2-year-old tapped the ball, got a run batted in and scored a run, grinning all the way home.

That also gave Ohtani his first run batted in this spring. Shohei Ohtani's first at-bat of #SpringTraining … Shohei Ohtani's first HOME RUN of Spring Training!

That brought up Yelich, who belted a two-run homer into the second deck in right to up the advantage to 6-1. The homer was Yelich's 19th, tying his 144-game output in 2023.

Friday marked just the second time in the franchise's history where all nine batters had a run batted in. The other instance took place on June 2, 2017, against the Oakland Athletics.