(6/23) MLB | The Daily Dinger Report — Dinger Tuesday
Written by: Varun Sharma
Published: Tue Jun 23, 2026, 4:26 pm ET
Read Time: 4 minutes
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Happy Dinger Tuesday to all of those that celebrate. We've got a beautiful looking MLB slate on the docket and I'm locked in on two hitters to yard tonight.
Let's jump right into my favourite dingers 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: 8-14; +9.3 units
Today's Dingers
Samuel Basallo Home Run (+350) | Lucky Rebel
Samuel Basallo is in his second year in the MLB, he's hitting .258 on the year and he's hit 10 home runs this year with a .447 SLG. All his numbers have jumped from last year and he's become a big part of this Orioles lineup.
Basallo's been struggling this month, but tonight's matchup is what peaked my interest.
The Orioles are in sunny California and the Angels will send out 23-year old Ryan Johnson. Tonight will be Johnson's third career start and his 20th career game played in his first two seasons.
Across 28 total innings pitched, Johnson's got a 9.96 ERA, he's allowed 9 home runs and it's been even worse this year. In just 13.1 innings, Johnson's given up 23 hits, 5 home runs, 19 earned runs and he's allowing a HH above 40%.
Johnson's also got a 62% fly ball rate this year and with winds blowing out toward center field, I think we're going to see offense.
Against lefties, Johnson throws three pitches; a cutter, a sinker and his splitter. All three are pitches Basallo has been crushing this year, especially against righties.
Basallo's batting average jumps to .274 against righties and 9 of his 10 home runs have come against the same. He's got a 47% HH against righties and that jumps north of 50% against this specific pitch mix.
Shea Langeliers Home Run (+350) | Lucky Rebel
I hate betting home runs in this ballpark, but today with winds blowing out at 12 mph, I'll make an exception.
Langeliers has 19 home runs this year, he's batting .271 on the year and he's got a .520 SLG. Against left handed pitching, Shea's average jumps to .338 and 7 of his 19 home runs have been against lefties (.675 SLG).
Today the Athletics will face off against a 34-year old Robbie Ray. Ray's got a 4.19 ERA this year and he's giving up 1.6 HR/9. In night games that balloons to 2.4 HR/9 and he's allowing a 15% BRL in these same games.
Ray's giving up a 62% fly ball rate this year and usually Oracle Park does a good job of suppressing high fly balls; not today. With winds blowing directly out to center and Ray's struggles versus righties; I'm going straight to Shea Bangaliers.
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