page_title: Matt Kemp
section_title: 2010
hierarchical_section_title: Matt Kemp / Major leagues / Los Angeles Dodgers / 2010
caption_attribution_description: Description Matt Kemp returns to the dugout after hitting a home run against the Detroit Tigers on 22 May 2010 Date22 May 2010SourceI (Cbl62 (talk)) created this work entirely by myself.AuthorCbl62 (talk) 01:21, 25 May 2010 . . Cbl62 . . 3,456×2,592 (3.01 MB) Matt Kemp returns to the dugout after hitting a home run against the Detroit Tigers on 22 May 2010
context_page_description: Matthew Ryan Kemp is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Colorado Rockies of Major League Baseball. He began his professional career in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization in 2003, and played with the Dodgers from 2006 until 2014, the San Diego Padres in 2015 and 2016 and the Atlanta Braves in 2016 and 2017 before returning to the Dodgers for the 2018 season, and briefly playing for the Cincinnati Reds in 2019. He has been named to three All-Star teams and has won two Gold Glove Awards and two Silver Slugger Awards.
  The Dodgers selected Kemp in the sixth round of the 2003 MLB draft. After four seasons in the minor leagues, he made his major league debut in 2006. He did not become a full-time player until 2008, when he took over as the starting center fielder for the Dodgers. In 2011, Kemp led the National League in runs scored, total bases, OPS+, WAR, home runs, and runs batted in. Additionally, he became the first player to finish in the top two in both home runs and steals since Hank Aaron in 1963.
context_section_description: Kemp began the 2010 season in excellent fashion, hitting seven home runs in the month of April, including four in four days from April 13–16. On June 1, Kemp hit his first career walk-off home run against the Arizona Diamondbacks off of relief pitcher J. C. Gutiérrez, giving the Dodgers the only run of the game. Kemp described his first career walk-off home run as "a great feeling". However, he slumped badly in the second half of the season and finished with a .249 batting average, 28 home runs, 89 RBIs, and 19 steals while playing in all 162 games for the first time in his career. He also broke his own single-season Dodger record for strikeouts, with 170.
  Kemp was the subject of some criticism in 2010 from General Manager Ned Colletti, who called him out publicly early in the season for poor baserunning. Kemp had several embarrassing gaffes on the base paths during the season, and was caught stealing 15 times. With runners in scoring position, he hit seven home runs and drove in 61 runs in 160 at bats. However, he struck out 49 times and batted just .225 in that spot.  Against right-handed pitching, he batted just .233 with a .299 on-base percentage, to go along with 22 home runs and 69 RBIs, as opposed to a .295 average against left-handed pitchers.
  Kemp hit home runs in five straight games to end the season, the first major league player to accomplish that feat and the first Dodger since Shawn Green in the 2001 season to hit homers in five consecutive games.  The only other Dodgers to homer in five consecutive games are Roy Campanella (1950), Adrián González (2014–15), and Joc Pederson (2015).
caption: Kemp returns to the dugout after hitting a home run on May 22, 2010
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