NEW YORK – Watching from the dugout, Justin Turner saw teammates spray Citi Field with a bunch of home runs and figured the Los Angeles Dodgers wouldn't need any from him.
His power proved to be the difference. Turner hit the Dodgers' seventh home run of the game, a go-ahead drive in the 11th inning that led Los Angeles over the New York Mets 8-7 Sunday.
"I was hoping we didn't need one," said Turner, who went 1-for-9 in the first two games of the series before getting the day off. "But it kind of worked out."
Cody Bellinger and Kike Hernandez each homered twice as the Dodgers beat the Mets for the 12th consecutive time dating to 2016. Max Muncy and Joc Pederson also connected for Los Angeles, which fell one short of the team record for homers and is 25-9 since falling 10 games under .500.
Hernandez and Muncy led off the game with back-to-back shots off Jerry Blevins, a reliever making his first major league start in 533 appearances. That marked only the second time since 1900 that a pitcher had given up two consecutive home runs to begin his first start in the majors, the Elias Sports Bureau said — Don Hendrickson did it in 1945 with the Boston Braves.
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