LOS ANGELES — Do not look now, however Max Muncy is beginning to extra intently resemble his common self.
Muncy led the cost for the Dodgers as they stormed previous the Yankees in Saturday’s 18-2 victory at Dodger Stadium, securing a minimum of a collection win for L.A. within the weekend’s World Sequence rematch. The seven RBIs matched Muncy’s single-game profession excessive, final achieved on April 10, 2023, in San Francisco.
Muncy drove in his first run on an RBI single within the first, and he plated the opposite six by way of the lengthy ball. He swatted a pair of three-run blasts — one to chase Yankees starter Will Warren within the second, and one other off reliever Mark Leiter Jr. within the fifth — for his sixteenth profession multihomer recreation. The primary residence run was the two hundredth of his profession.
It has been a making an attempt first couple of months for Muncy, each within the subject and on the plate. His eight errors are tied for second most amongst Main League third basemen. He endured the longest homerless stretch of his profession, which ended on the ultimate day of April.
Now, because the calendar flips to June, Muncy appears to be rounding into type.
Muncy ended April hitting .194 with a .610 OPS, and simply the one homer. He is since raised his common to .220 and his OPS to .723 with six homers in all. He is nonetheless not fairly the place he wish to be, however his manufacturing this season is inching nearer to profession common.
