(7/29) MLB | The Daily Dinger Report — Hump Day Dingers
Written by: Varun Sharma
Last Update: Wed Jul 29, 2026, 4:12 pm ET
Read Time: 4 minutes
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Happy International Chicken Wing Day. What better way to celebrate the holiday than with a couple home run hitters and few too many chicken wings. We've got nine MLB games set to go off tonight and great hitting conditions on the West Coast.
Let's jump right into my two favorite hitters tonight.
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: 16-31; +16.95 units
Today's Dingers
Yordan Alvarez Home Run (+210) | Lucky Rebel
Yordan Alvarez has been on a completely different planet this year. The big hitting lefty's hit 35 home runs, he's got 80 RBI and he's scored 74 runs. Alvarez is batting .325 on the year, with a .647 SLG, 24% BRL and 54% HH.
Yordan's crushing right handed pitchers this year, batting .340, with a .681 SLG, 25% BRL and 57% HH. He's hit 26 home runs against righties this year and tonight he faces off with the struggling Grayson Rodriguez.
After not playing in 2025, Rodriguez signed with the Angels this year and despite the 3-3 record; he's been really bad. Rodriguez has a 8.54 ERA across 9 starts this year, he's given up 7 home runs in just 39 innings of work and he's been even worse at home.
Grayson's ERA jumps to 10.22 in his 6 home starts, allowing hitters to hit .365 at Angels Stadium while giving up 1.9 HR/9. Against lefties, he's somehow been worse.
Rodriguez has allowed left handed bats to hit .405 this year, with a .708 SLG and 58% HH. Five of the 8 home runs he's given up this year have been to left handed bats and Yordan's the biggest left handed bat in the business.
Dominic Canzone Home Run (+370) | Lucky Rebel
Dominic Canzone has played in 93 of the Mariners 108 games this year, he's absolutely crushing the baseball and he's quickly becoming the Mariners' best offensive weapon.
Canzone hit two home runs last night here at Dodger Stadium and usually that's a spot I'd look to avoid. However, Canzone's going up against Eric Lauer tonight; a lefty that's been struggling as of late.
Lauer hasn't faced a ton of lefties this year, but he's allowed them to hit .254 on the year with 4 home runs and a .460 SLG.
Canzone's batting .263 on the year, with a .530 SLG and 47% HH. Depsite a small sample size, he's crushed left handed pitching this year. He's batting .286 against lefties, with a .657 SLG and 56% HH.
Canzone's hit 4 home runs against left handed pitchers this year and he's got a 88% HH against Lauer's favorite pitch; the 4-seam fastball.
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