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Turner caps Dodgers’ power party

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NEW YORK — Watching from the visitors dugout, Justin Turner saw his teammates spray Citi Field with a bunch of home runs and figured the Dodgers wouldn’t need any from him.

His power proved to be the difference.

Turner hit the Dodgers’ seventh home run of the game, a go-ahead drive in the 11th inning that led to an 8-7 victory over the Mets on Sunday.

“I was hoping we didn’t need one,” said Turner, who went 1-for-9 in the first two games of the series. “But it kind of worked out.” Cody Bellinger and Kike Hernandez each homered twice as the Dodgers beat the Mets for the 12th straight time dating to 2016. Max Muncy and Joc Pederson also connected for the Dodgers. Hernandez and Muncy led off the game with back-to-back shots.

The Dodgers’ team record for home runs in a game is eight, set in 2002 against the Brewers.

The defending NL champs have gone 25-9 since falling behind 10 games under .500 on May 16, and have won three straight after losing the last two games of a three-game series last week at Wrigley Field against the Cubs.

The Dodgers are now 2 games behind the NL Westleadin­g Diamondbac­ks.

“We had a lot of injuries, a lot of bad luck and nothing was going our way,” Hernandez said. “Slowly things started to turn around. It was just a matter of time because if you look at our team, even now that we’re doing really good, there’s no reason why we shouldn’t have the record we have now.”

The Mets matched a team record for the most homers allowed in a game, and lost their sixth in a row overall.

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