Hope, De Paula, Sirota and Morales all cleared the fence for Dodgers’ top prospects on Sunday

A Sunday doubleheader at Double-A Tulsa and a night game at High-A Great Lakes turned into another reminder of why the Dodgers spend so much time on developing hitters at the lower levels. In two affiliates’ respective games, four of the organization’s top five prospects combined for home runs, with Zyhir Hope going deep twice for the Drillers and Josue De Paula, Mike Sirota and Emil Morales each adding their own round-trippers. The names are familiar at this point in the pipeline, but the common thread was simple: the ball was finding the gaps and the home run fences.

Hope, listed by the Dodgers as their No. 2 prospect and the No. 17 player in MLB’s prospect rankings, delivered an opposite-field round tripper in both of Tulsa’s games. He took right-hander Indigo Diaz deep in the third inning of the continuation of Saturday’s game, then went yard again off righty Zane Russell in the fifth of the regularly scheduled contest. The 21-year-old has 13 home runs this season, and the extra-base output has not been a one-week issue, either. MLB also noted that Hope went deep twice on Tuesday to start the series against Amarillo.

De Paula, the Dodgers’ No. 1 prospect, also kept his recent stretch moving in the Drillers’ night game. The outfielder teed off on righty Jonatan Bernal in the fourth inning, launching a pull-side home run that continued what the organization has described as a hot phase. MLB credited his surge with both volume and consistency: De Paula has reached base safely in 24 straight games, has six home runs during that run, and his OPS has climbed from.867 to.971.

If Hope’s Sunday was about raw impact, Sirota’s was about timing and plate discipline. The Dodgers’ No. 4 prospect extended a Minor League-best on-base streak to 47 games. MLB reported that he walked twice and then delivered a go-ahead home run in the ninth inning of the continuation game, off fellow righty Landon Sims. In the nightcap, he added a walk and a single, and the bigger picture showed a rebound as well: after a 1-for-17 start, Sirota has produced a combined slash line of.339/.448/.602 between High-A and Double-A.

Great Lakes’ game script was harsher, but Morales made sure the Loons’ offense remained anchored to at least one big swing. In a 13-4 loss at Dow Diamond, the Dodgers’ No. 5 prospect supplied all of the team’s power with a solo homer “the other way” off lefty Jack Mahoney of the Athletics. Morales, 19 years old and described by MLB as the fourth-youngest hitter in the Midwest League, has four home runs in 15 total games at High-A after a mid-May promotion.

That mix, power plus getting on base, matters to a club that is constantly trying to translate skills from one rung to the next. Tulsa is the Dodgers’ Double-A affiliate in the Texas League, and Great Lakes plays at High-A in the Midwest League, giving both prospects a meaningful testing ground before they are asked to face higher-end pitching. With De Paula continuing to stack on-base streaks and Sirota turning patience into extra-base damage, the Dodgers will be watching whether Sunday’s production holds up as weeks turn and scouting reports tighten. For fans tracking the system, the next question is whether these hitting trends keep translating beyond the highlight swings.