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A night after hitting two dingers, Rainiers left fielder Tyler O’Neill hit another home run, his 14th of the season, but Tacoma lost 6-3 at Reno in a Pacific Coast League game Wednesday night.
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Dingers as the Driver Even in a year that's featuring record home run rates (1.26 per team per game)—perhaps due in part to juiced baseballs and a philosophical shift in hitting styles—
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Breazeale hit his first professional dinger leading off the seventh and in the very next inning, Ripken drilled his first as an IronBird, a three-run shot to left field.
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Dodger dingers: The Dodgers have a 10-game winning streak.
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Nine MLB players homered on both Mother’s and Father’s Day this year — including three dingers each by the D-backs’ Paul Goldschmidt, the Cardinals’ Yadier Molina, the Astros’ George Springer and the Rockies’ Pat Valaika.
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The NL leader, Cody Bellinger, hit his 22nd in the first inning of the Dodgers 12-0 win over the Mets, in which Corey Seager also smashed three dingers.
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Stanton’s dinger Tuesday was a part of Miami’s game-winning rally in the fifth, five consecutive two-out hits to turn a tie into a four-run cushion against Oakland starter Jharel Cotton (five innings, five runs).
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Lorenzo homered on the next bat, giving her a team-leading 11 dingers this season.
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Origin and Etymology of dinger
perhaps from ding to strike + 2-er
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