Here’s our weekly look at 10 mind-blowing notes from the last week in baseball (June 1-7).

Leadoff spot Mookie: On Friday, Mookie Betts notched his 22nd career multi-homer game out of the leadoff spot, three more than anyone else in MLB history. It was the second time in his career Betts had back-to-back multi-homer games out of the leadoff spot. The only other player with multiple such streaks is Kyle Schwarber, also with two. Entering this weekend, his six leadoff homers this season are tied for sixth-most in a season in Dodgers franchise history behind only 2019 Joc Pederson (nine), 2018 Pederson (eight) and 2022 Betts, 2021 Betts and 1979 Davey Lopes, all with seven. It’s early June.

Another grand beginning: The Brewers’ Blake Perkins hit a grand slam on Saturday for his first career home run. He became the fifth Brewers player with a grand slam for his first career MLB homer -- and the second this season. He joined Brice Turang (4/3/23), Shaun Marcum (7/4/11), Tim Unroe (5/3/97) and Bill Spiers (4/17/89). That’s right, before ‘23, the last Brewers player to do this was a pitcher in Marcum.

Even more long homers for Acuña: Each of Ronald Acuña Jr.'s last 10 home runs, including a 464-foot one Saturday, have gone at least 420 feet. That's the most consecutive homers, all at 420 or more feet, tracked by Statcast (since 2015), breaking a tie at nine with 2021 Jorge Soler and 2016 Giancarlo Stanton, per research by MLB’s Jason Bernard. He now has 10 460-plus-foot homers in his career, the most in MLB since the start of 2018.

Good start: Bobby Miller was impressive on Sunday Night Baseball, becoming the first Dodgers pitcher since at least 1901 with a scoreless start of at least six innings, allowing one hit or fewer, within his first three career appearances. Miller is just the second Dodgers pitcher since at least 1901 to go at least five innings and allow one run or fewer in each of his first three career appearances, joining 2016 Kenta Maeda.

The Rays rake: The Rays have hit three home runs of at least 450 feet this season. Two of those came on Tuesday, off the bats of Luke Raley (450 feet) and Jose Siri (457 feet). That marked the first time the Rays had hit multiple 450-plus-foot home runs in the same game tracked by Statcast (since 2015).

Soto keeps hitting: Juan Soto had quite the game Wednesday, notching his first career five-hit game. It was also the 69th time he’s reached base safely at least four times in a game. That tied Mickey Mantle for the second-most games reaching base safely at least four times before turning 25 since 1900, behind only Ted Williams’ 81 such games.

Elly has arrived: On Tuesday, Elly De La Cruz became the fifth-youngest player to start at cleanup in his MLB debut in the past 100 seasons and youngest since Andrés Mora in 1976. On Wednesday, he hit both his first career homer and first career triple. At 458 feet, De La Cruz’s home run became the fifth-longest by a batter for his first homer tracked by Statcast (since 2015). At 114.8 mph, it was the second-hardest-hit first career homer by a batter in the Statcast era, behind only Jake Burger’s 115.2 mph on July 17, 2021. And the triple? He went home-to-third in 10.83 seconds, the fastest-tracked home-to-third time in MLB this season and second-fastest since the start of 2020.

Speaking of first homers: Later in that Wednesday game, Will Benson became the third player in Reds franchise history with a walk-off homer for his first career home run, joining Drew Stubbs (8/20/09) and Jay Bruce (5/31/08). That’s right, De La Cruz and Benson each hit their first career long balls in the game. It was the third time in Reds history they had two players hit their first career homers in the same game, joining Hans Lobert and Mike Mowrey on Aug. 14, 1907 and Frank Motz and Tom Parrott on Sept. 18, 1893.

.400 watch: Luis Arraez’s .403 batting average is the seventh-highest by a qualified hitter in his team’s first 63 games since the start of 1941 (based on current qualification rules). Why 1941? Because that’s the year Ted Williams hit .406, the last qualified hitter to bat at least .400 for a full season. Since then, the most team games into a season that a qualified hitter has hit .400 was 134 by George Brett in 1980, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. Brett finished the season at .390.

To the Max: Max Scherzer recorded his first game of 2023 with at least 10 strikeouts on Wednesday. It was the 111th such game of his career, breaking a tie with Roger Clemens for sole possession of third-most all-time. He trails only Nolan Ryan (215) and Randy Johnson (212).