LOS ANGELES — After lacking a month with a left knee bone bruise, Max Muncy predicted it might take him a few video games to get his pitch recognition again.
Seems, he wanted only one.
Batting cleanup, Muncy delivered the primary blow within the backside of the primary inning with a solo shot off St. Louis starter Miles Mikolas. Muncy deposited a first-pitch middle-middle sinker a Statcast-projected 416 ft, into the right-field seats.
Within the backside of the third, with Mookie Betts on third base, Muncy received to Mikolas once more, this time taking a four-seamer on the prime of the zone to right-center for his fifteenth lengthy ball of the yr and his nineteenth profession multihomer recreation. That ties Muncy with Mike Piazza for the Dodgers’ most multihomer video games because the membership moved to Los Angeles in 1958.
Muncy tacked on an RBI single within the seventh and one other base hit within the eighth. He helped gas the Dodgers’ first double-digit run whole since June 22, after they put up 13 vs. the Nationals.
Teoscar Hernández additionally contributed a four-hit, two-homer effort, whereas Betts ended a career-worst five-game hitless streak by going 3-for-4 with a double, two singles and a stroll.
