Seager extends streak with multihit game vs. MadBum

LOS ANGELES — How would you build a player every team in baseball would kill to have? Let’s start by making him a shortstop, and one that’s pretty good with the glove at that.

Give him an on-base percentage exceeding that of Daniel Murphy, Miguel Cabrera and Buster Posey over the last calendar year. Do the same with slugging percentage, but with Josh Donaldson, Anthony Rizzo and Mark Trumbo.

And make him 22 years old. Do that, and you will have Corey Seager.

For the sixth time in seven games, the Dodgers’ precocious shortstop had multiple hits as he keyed a 9-5 win over the Giants on Tuesday night. He is now on a 14-game hitting streak, 11 of those games being multihit efforts. During the streak, Seager is batting .509 (29-for-57) with four doubles and five home runs.

Tuesday should have been one of the greater …

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