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Watch: Dodgers' Taylor laces leadoff inside-the-park HR

Kelley L Cox / USA TODAY Sports

That's one way to snap an 0-for-15 skid, Chris Taylor.

The Los Angeles Dodgers super-utility man got things started in a big way for baseball's best club Monday night in Philadelphia. Taylor smashed Nick Pivetta's second pitch of the game off a metal fence above the center-field wall, before the ball took an awkward bounce away from Odubel Herrera. That bounce gave Taylor all the time in the world to race around the bases in just 15.40 seconds - the third-fastest time rounding the bases on a home run this year, per StatCast - and cruise into home without a throw for the ultra-rare leadoff inside-the-park home run.

According to ESPN Stats & Info, Taylor is the first Dodgers player to hit a leadoff inside-the-park dinger since current Dodgers manager Dave Roberts - then a speedy outfielder - did it in 2003.

The homer also made Taylor the fifth Dodgers player to hit at least 20 big flies this season.

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