(6/20) MLB | The Daily Dinger Report — Saturday Night Dingers
Written by: Varun Sharma
Last Update: Sat Jun 20, 2026, 7:21 pm ET
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We got back into the win column last night, so let's keep it rolling into the weekend. We've got a good looking slate of Saturday night MLB games and I've got two hitters I'm locked in on.
The cheat sheet makes it a lot easier when I run through the stats I'm looking at and as always, hit me up on X if you've got more questions.
Dinger Cheat Sheet
- BA — Batting Average
- oBA — Opponent Batting Average
- xBA — Expected BA
- SLG — Slugging Percentage
- ISO — Isolated Power
- wOBA — Weighted On-Base Average
- HH% — Hard Hit Rate
- BRL% — Barrel Rate
- HR/9 — Home Runs per 9 innings
- XBH — Extra Base Hit
- RBI — Runs Batted In
Dinger Counter: 6-14; +4.0 units
Today's Dingers
Byron Buxton Home Run (+270) | Lucky Rebel
Last game of the night and we're going with one of the hottest hitters in the MLB.
Byron Buxton is hitting .276 on the year, with a .593 SLG, 20% BRL and 47% HH. He's got 23 home runs so far this year and he's just one shy of the league lead.
The Minnesota Twins are in the desert tonight going up against the Arizona Diamondbacks. On the mound for Arizona will be Zac Gallen. He's got a 5.35 ERA this year year, he's giving up 1.6 HR/9 and he's allowing opposing hitters to hit just over .300.
Gallen's also given up 6+ hits in 8 of his last 9 games, giving up 11 home runs in the process and 4.3 runs per game. He's been bad this year and Buxton's taken advantage of bad pitching this year.
He's hitting .272 against righties this year and 19 of his 23 home runs have come against right handed pitching. Gallen relies heavily on a mix of his 4-seam fastball and his slider against right handed bats. Both are pitches Buxton's been hitting for power.
Shohei Ohtani Home Run (+260) | Lucky Rebel
Saturday night in Los Angeles is when the stars come out. Shohei Ohtani might just be the biggest star in the City of Angels and tonight he returns to the lineup after a one game absence for the birth of his second child; the day before Father's Day.
Maybe I'm a sucker for a good story line, but Ohtani's been looking more and more like his MVP-self. He's hitting .360 this month with a .760 SLG and 5 home runs through just 14 games.
In 54 games prior to June 1st, Ohtani was hitting .280 on the year with 10 home runs, 31 RBI and 37 runs scored. In just 14 games this month, he's hit 5 home runs, he's scored 14 runs and recorded 11 RBI.
Ohtani's back and tonight he faces off with Trevor Rogers.
Rogers has a 6.08 ERA this year and he's giving up 1.2 HR/9. He's giving up a 60% fly ball rate this year and with winds blowing out at almost 10 mph, I love this matchup.
Rogers relies heavily on his 4-seam fastball against lefties, as well as his change up and sinker. Ohtani's crushing all three pitches with HH above 40%.
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