Hyeseong Kim's shocking record just widened Dodgers' gap with Yankees even further

Even though every Dodger in Saturday's starting lineup ended up scoring at least once during their 18-2 rout of the Yankees, the game's MVP was undoubtedly rookie Hyeseong Kim. He hit his second homer of the season in the bottom of the second, after Yankees starter Will Warren was pulled after giving up seven runs in 1 1/3 innings, and then he pulled off a glorious unassisted double play at the top of the third.

Former Dodgers prospect Jorbit Vivas hit a liner up to the middle and Kim, making his first start at shortstop and playing a couple steps behind second base, dove to grab it and apply a tag before Austin Wells could get back to the bag. Wells was initially called safe, but the Dodgers challenged and the call was overturned.

Kim went on to pick up hits in all of his next three at-bats and scored on a Freddie Freeman double, then again on Dalton Rushing's first career homer. He shifted from shortstop to center in the top of the sixth, after Dave Roberts pulled Freeman and Teoscar Hernández with the score already 14-1, and picked up an outfield assist when Aaron Judge tried to stretch a single into a double and was caught at second.

With that game, Kim "became the only MLB player in the modern era to have 4+ hits, a home run, and unassisted double play, and an outfield assist" in a single game.

The best night of Hyeseong Kim's Dodgers career so far made history, helped LA to blowout win vs. Yankees

With the score 15-2 in the middle of the eighth (both of New York's runs came thanks to Judge), the Yankees turned to position player Pablo Reyes in the bottom of the inning. Reyes then proceeded to give up Rushing's first career homer, a three-run shot to put the Dodgers up 18-2.

Kiké Hernández got his second inning of the season in the ninth and pitched a scoreless frame (while wearing the protective visor, because of course), cementing a series win for the Dodgers in their World Series rematch.

Kim wasn't in the Dodgers' starting lineup on Sunday. He hasn't been getting regular playing time since Tommy Edman returned from the IL, even though he's making it pretty clear that he should be. The Dodgers obviously have an embarrassment of riches when it comes to their hitting depth, but with Miguel Rojas batting .167 with runners in scoring position and consistently ending innings with runners on and Shohei Ohtani on deck, there's really no excuse to be consistently keeping Kim on the sidelines.