Most of the players in the top five of the Baseball Musings Batter Rankings did not play on Thursday, yet there was a major move in the rankings. Alex Bregman of the Astros remains on top. There is a new addition moving all the way to number two, however, Mookie Betts.

Betts collected four hits, three of them home runs, and was hit by a pitch. (The HBP came when Betts was leading off the first inning.) This was the sixth time Betts hit three home runs in a game, which tied the major league record.

On Thursday night, in only his 17th start in a Dodgers uniform, Betts put himself in the company of some of the game’s most prodigious power hitters, notching his sixth career three-homer game in an 11-2 rout of the division-rival San Diego Padres at Dodger Stadium. The only other players with six three-homer games are Sammy Sosa and Johnny Mize. Sosa got there in his 2,354th career game. Mize did it in his 1,884th game. Betts accomplished the feat in his 813th.

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Betts Baseball Musings Game Score comes in at 99, and that caused him to jump from 13th place to second place. With 146 career home runs, 12% of those have come in just six games.

Justin Turner‘s 1 for 3 drops him out of the top five.

DJ LeMahieu, Anthony Rendon, and Nelson Cruz were all idle and round out the top five.