LOS ANGELES — Blake Snell waited nearly three months for his return to the mound. Max Muncy made sure the wait ended with a win.
WALK IT OFF, MAX. pic.twitter.com/d9rYp0jp3L
Muncy delivered a walk-off single in the 10th inning, his seventh career walk-off hit, lifting the Dodgers to a 5-4 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday night in a back-and-forth game that ultimately gave the Dodgers a second straight win.
The Dodgers loaded the bases in the 10th before the Royals intentionally walked Kyle Tucker to bring Muncy to the plate with nowhere to put the go-ahead run.
Muncy, who had already collected a single, came through again.

#muncy #Royals

In the eighth inning on Tuesday night, it looked like the Dodgers were trying to give the game away.
In the end, all they were really doing was setting up some late theatrics.
In a back-and-forth, twist-and-turn, 5-4 thriller of a win over the Kansas City Royals, the Dodgers took another step forward from their recent two-week slump –– overcoming a bafflingly blown two-run lead in the eighth by ultimately winning on Max Muncy's walk-off single in the 10th.
Max Muncy walks it off for the Dodgers! pic.twitter.com/ll3lJt5acR
Such dramatics shouldn't have been required, of course.

#Dodgers #Royals

The Los Angeles Dodgers set their lineup as they aim for their first series win of August against the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday.
The Dodgers won the first game of the series on Monday, as Tarik Skubal made his first first start in front of the home fans as a Dodger and Max Muncy drove in three runs on his bobblehead night.
LA had lost eight of their previous nine games prior to Monday's win, and will look to carry the momentum from their win forward throughout the remainder of the season.
The Dodgers are getting another important player back from the injured list, as Blake Snell will make his return for the second game of the series.
Snell has only made one appearance this season, coming all the way back in May before he landed back on the injured list with loose bodies in his elbow. In his only start, Snell allowed five runs through three innings pitched.

#series #three

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tarik Skubal yielded three runs over five innings in his home debut for the Dodgers, and Shohei Ohtani scored the go-ahead run in the seventh while Los Angeles rallied for only its second victory in 10 games, 6-5 over the Kansas City Royals on Monday night.
Skubal allowed four hits and struck out six in the back-to-back Cy Young Award winner's second start for his new team since arriving from Detroit in the majors' biggest deadline trade. Jac Caglianone homered and drove in all three runs off the Dodgers' vaunted new left-hander, who left trailing 3-2.
Max Muncy hit a three-run double in the sixth on his bobblehead night for the Dodgers, but Kyle Isbel responded with a tying two-run homer in the seventh for Kansas City.
Ohtani then singled and stole his first base since May 16 before he scored on Freddie Freeman's single, putting Los Angeles ahead to stay in this back-and-forth homestand opener.
Ohtani also had an early RBI double for the Dodgers, who improved to 8-12 since July 19.

#Dodgers #ohtani #three #back

The hottest team in baseball stays sizzling, as the Boston Red Sox crushed four home runs against the Dodgers on Sunday, winning 8-4 and completing the sweep.
It was another rough first inning for Emmet Sheehan, as he allowed a leadoff walk to Nick Sogard to begin the game. After getting Ceddanne Rafeala to ground into a fielder's choice, Wilyer Abreu singled up the middle. One pitch was all Sheehan needed to get Willson Contreras to line out to left, but the Red Sox broke through with a pair of two-out, RBI singles from Masataka Yoshida and Caleb Durbin. Sheehan finished his first inning with a strikeout, limiting Boston to the two runs, albeit on 30 pitches.
Sheehan would bounce back in the second inning, as he faced the minimum while striking out the side in order.
The Dodgers strung across a one-out rally in the bottom of the second inning against rookie Jake Bennett, as Kyle Tucker, Teoscar Hernández and Max Muncy singled to load the bases for Eliézer Alfonzo. Alfonzo drove home Tucker one a groundout to put the Dodgers on the board, and after an intentional walk to Shohei Ohtani, Andy Pages gave the Dodgers the lead with an opposite field, two-strike, two-run single.
Andy for the lead! pic.twitter.com/1baVmkRhc3

#Dodgers

Yesterday, Ryan noted the Seattle Mariners had the chance to do something dumb. The option remains on the table tonight, particularly with Shohei Ohtani receiving a rest day. Against the resurgent Roki Sasaki and the Los Angeles Dodgers, ***** uming simplicity is simple-minded itself. But Bryan Woo is facing his greatest enemy, with nothing to do with Kyle Tucker or Max Muncy. The .304/.344/.479 line he's allowed on the road, with a .354 wOBA, is about equivalent to facing Muncy, Randy Arozarena, or Ketel Marte every single plate appearance. He should consider simply returning to magic fastballs instead of these miserable, mundane ones.
With only four games remaining between today and the trade deadline Monday, Seattle needs every bit of clarity they can find.
First Pitch: 7:10 p.m.
TV: Mariners.TV
Radio: Ol' Reliable

#ohtani

In the 1980s, Coca-Cola infamously introduced a reformulated version of their signature soda that ended up going by the name New **** e. It didn’t go over very well: sales slumped, chastened executives were forced to reintroduce the classic **** e, and conspiracy theories about the revamped recipe being a scheme to juice sales of the rescued original recipe spread. Tonight, Aaron Nola pitched in front of a Coca-Cola logo drawn into the mound dirt. Like that vaunted soft drink, Nola has two recipes: Nola Classic, a highly effective, if not quite ace-level, pitcher, and New Nola, the struggling hurler whose long-ball nemesis often gets the better of him. Will Coca-Nola Classic ever make a permanent return to the beverage aisle? We hope so. But tonight, we got the not-so-sweet taste of New Nola, as the Dodgers took the series.
Nola got the night started off right with a one-pitch out of Shohei Ohtani. Alec Bohm got it started off even more right with a two-run shot to left in the bottom first. In the second, Nola struck out Max Muncy on a classic knuckle curve, then put out the next two Angelenos down on fly **** . It was smooth sailing at first for the Louisianan hurler. And it continued that way through the first two outs of the third. Then, unfortunately, came the familiar refrain, the song of the summer that you wish the radio would stop playing: a homer, this one courtesy of Dalton Rushing, to narrow the lead to one.
He encountered more trouble in the fourth. Freddie Freeman doubled, then did the little dance, both arms up and waving buoyantly, that the Dodgers apparently do after hits. It is said that this dance actually traces its origins back to the Brooklyn days, when the early Dodgers used it to hone the reflexes that were necessary for the dodging of trolleys; it is still extant despite the loss of its purpose, rather like the appendix. Max Muncy singled to put two runners on, but Nola was able to wrap the inning up without further damage.
The same could not be said of the fifth. Nola allowed singles to Teoscar Hernández and Tommy Edman, then a two-bagger to Rushing to score two and give the visitors the lead. Ohtani was given an intentional walk. The move paid off, as Ohtani became part of a twin killing that ended the frame. But the damage was done, and the lead was lost.
Not for long. Bryan De La Cruz sent a fastball flying towards the greenery of the batter’s eye as the first batter in the Phillie fifth. Andy Pages stretched out his arm, and for a moment it looked as if he’d come down with it. Like a bank robber foiled by the dye packs in a sack of cash, his would-be burglary was foiled at the last second, with the ball glancing off his leather and landing safely over the fence to tie the game. Bryson Stott doubled, but was put out on a baserunning blunder; dredging up some bad memories from the not-so-distant past.

#classic

The Los Angeles Dodger put together a strong offensive display on Wednesday, with Max Muncy, Tommy Edman and Dalton Rushing all playing huge roles as the Dodgers claimed a series win.
The Dodgers lost the opening game of the series against the Philadelphia Phillies, but a two-run homer off of Muncy’s bat gave them the win in the second game of the set.
Muncy hit yet another two-run home run on Wednesday—passing Ron Cey in the Dodgers’ all-time leaderboard—with the game tied at three after two fantastic at-bats from Dalton Rushing, giving the Dodgers a 5-3 lead, and the rest of the offense did their job to extend the advantage late.
The Dodgers won the game by a score of 9-5.
Eric Lauer started the game for the Dodgers, throwing five innings as the starter. The Phillies struck early against the left-hander, as Alec Bohm jumped on a 1-0 changeup to hit his 13th homer of the season to make the score 2-0.

#homer #score

The Philadelphia Phillies continue to make questionable decisions while running the bases during this week's series against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia.
Trea Turner reached first base on a fielder's choice out in the bottom of the fifth ... only because Dodgers third baseman Max Muncy tagged out Bryson Stott, who for some reason decided to run from second to third with one out.
The game had just been tied 3-3 during the inning on a Bryan De La Cruz home run. But Stott's blunder halted the momentum with Kyle Schwarber popping out to end the inning.
The Dodgers jumped back in front the next frame.
The Phillies' poor base running proved costly on Tuesday, July 21, as they lost 2-1 thanks to a disastrous final sequence.

#Dodgers #base #inning #bank

After a stormy Tuesday kept the tarp on the field at Yankee Stadium, the Pirates (52-49) and the Yankees (56-44) will take the field today twice in the form of a day-night doubleheader. The Yankees sit atop the Wild Card standings and two games behind the Tampa Bay Rays in the AL East while the Pirates sit 11 games back of the Brewers in the NL Central and tied for the final Wild Card spot.
As a refresher, New York won the series opener Monday night, 8-5, thanks in large part to a pair of home runs and five runs batted in by Jazz Chisholm Jr.
Game 1 today pits two veteran right-handers Mitch Keller (6-7, 5.14 ERA) and Gerrit Cole (3-5, 3.93 ERA) against one another. Keller has been bad for about the last six weeks allowing 26 earned runs over just 35 innings. In his two July starts he has been even worse allowing eight runs in nine innings. In his last start Keller gave up three home runs. Well, the Yankees hit more home runs than anyone. Cole is beginning to look more like himself following his return from Tommy John surgery in late May. He was special against the Dodgers in his last start…until his last pitch. Max Muncy took him to the second deck in the seventh inning in a 2-1 Yankees loss. In July, Cole has thrown 17.1 innings and allowed seven earned runs, walking two and striking out 21.
The nightcap features a matchup of power arms at very different points of their seasons. Bubba Chandler (3-8, 4.77 ERA) remains one of Pittsburgh's most talented young pitchers, possessing high-end strikeout stuff, but command issues have led to inconsistency. He has struggled recently, posting a 6.60 ERA over his last three starts. Chandler was better in his most recent start, though, allowing two runs over 4.2 innings. Great? Hardly but better than his previous two starts in which he allowed a combined nine runs in 10.1 innings of work. For the Yankees, all eyes will be on Max Fried (4-3, 3.21 ERA), who is being activated from the injured list for the nightcap. The left-hander has been sidelined since May with a bone bruise in his elbow and was originally expected to make another rehab start before joining the rotation. Instead, the rainout accelerated his return. Expectations are he will throw a max of 60 pitches tonight.
Lets dive further into today's doubleheader and find a sweat or two.

#last #starts

The Los Angeles area teams will be well represented at the 2026 MLB All-Star Game at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, on Tuesday, July 14.
The event serves as a homecoming of sorts for Los Angeles Angels star Mike Trout. The three-time MVP is a New Jersey native but has deep ties to Philadelphia, which is located 45 miles south of his hometown.
Trout recently returned from the injured list last week before hitting a two-run home run in the Angels' 13-1 victory over the Texas Rangers on July 8. The home run came on the 15th anniversary of his major league debut.
He had missed 17 games after he suffered a right hamstring strain while running the bases during a game against the Arizona Diamondbacks on June 17.
The Los Angeles Dodgers tied for the most selections with six. Four of the six players will be starters for the National League, which is a league-best. First baseman Freddie Freeman, third baseman Max Muncy, outfielder Andy Pages and designated hitter Shohei Ohtani were also named as starters.

MLB announced the starting lineups for tomorrow night's All-Star Game, and as planned two Yankees will feature. Cody Bellinger starts in right and bats sixth, while Ben Rice starts at first and bats seventh:
The pair of Bombers come after a star-studded top five in the AL lineup, starting with Mike Trout in center, Yordan Alvarez at DH, Shea Langliers at catcher, Junior Caminero at third, and Bobby Witt Jr. at shortstop. Riley Greene in left and Ernie Clement at second round out the lineup. Rice is somewhat hard-done-by with his slot in the lineup, his 166 wRC+ second in the AL behind only Alvarez, and Langliers is a curious choice from manager John Schneider (to bat third, the catcher having a great season but lacking the offensive skillset and pedigree of most of the other starters.
Otherwise, the lineup seems fair enough on paper, and it's very cool to see Trout, the once-and-forever legend who's been derailed by injuries, slot in at the top, in the midst of a resurgent (and yet still injury-ridden) campaign. He and Alvarez form an awesome one-two, and though I would personally have slotted Rice right in there at the three spot, it's hard to argue with Caminero and Witt's positions, the pair each among the game's brightest young stars.
You can also check out the National League's lineup here:
The NL's starting lineup for the #AllStarGame (Tuesday, 8 pm ET on MLBONFOX):

Kyle Schwarber, DH
Juan Soto, LF
Freddie Freeman, 1B
CJ Abrams, SS
Max Muncy, 3B
Ozzie Albies, 2B
Brandon Marsh, RF
Andy Pages, CF
Drake Baldwin, C
Cristopher Sánchez, P

The silver lining for the Dodgers on Sunday is that they did not lose in lopsided fashion. But they did fall to the Diamondbacks for a third consecutive day, this time a more conventional 5-3 win for Arizona that capped off a series sweep and a deflating final week before the All-Star break.
Fielding miscues plagued the Dodgers this week, as nine errors in the last five games is no way to make a living. Two errors cropped up Sunday. Andy Pages dropped a fly ball during the two-run fifth inning, then Max Muncy's throw home hit a smartly-positioned Geraldo Perdomo, facilitating the two-run sixth inning that gave the Diamondbacks the lead for good.
That spoiled a promising start by Emmet Sheehan, who struck out seven against only one walk in 5 1/3 innings. He allowed three runs but only one of them were earned.
Shohei Ohtani hit the first pitch of the game for a solo home run, his fourth in six games, and also doubled. Ohtani had two home runs in the series against Arizona, which matched Diamondbacks first baseman Tim Tawa for the weekend.
Tawa drove in seven runs in the series, one fewer than the Dodgers scored as a team. It was that kind of a weekend for Los Angeles.

After a somewhat surprising (and surprisingly emphatic) win against the Doyers last night in their house thanks in large measure to Tim Tawa busting out, it seemed honestly pretty unlikely to me that we’d knock them off again, especially with Yoshinobu Yamamoto taking the mound for them and Brandon Pfaadt going for us. Don’t get me wrong, it has seemed like Pfaadt definitely worked some things out during his brief time in Reno, but his two very good starts since he’s been back have been against the Giants and the Padres, neither of whom are exactly poster children for “fierce and difficult competition” at this point in the season. The Dodgers, on the other hand, sport the best record in baseball, and Yamamoto has definitely earned his spot on the All-Star Game roster for the National League this year. So. My expectations were not high, is what I’m saying.
But you know what? I was completely wrong! Hooray! It didn’t look great to start, as Yamamoto made very short work of the top of our lineup in the first, sitting down Ketel Marte, Geraldo Perdomo, and Corbin Carroll, with only ten pitches thrown. But Pfaadt came out for the bottom of the first, and only needed five pitches to retire Shohei Ohtani, Andy Pages, and Freddie Freeman. Not too shabby.
And it pretty much continued that way through five innings—Brandon Pfaadt outpitching and outperforming the 2025 World Series MVP. Our hitters started hanging longer and more patient at bats on Yamamoto, the Dodgers hitters failed to do so with Pfaadt. Tim Tawa got the Diamondbacks’ first hit with two outs in the second with a fly ball single to center. Sadly, however, he was immediately picked off first base before Yamamoto had to throw another pitch, which was embarrassing. It broke the seal, though, at least, and we started driving Yamamoto’s pitch count up from there, with James McCann reaching on the Max Muncy throwing error with one out in the top of the third and Tommy Troy drawing a six-pitch walk. Nothing more came of that, sadly, as Marte popped out to third, and Perdomo flew out to left after a long at bat, but we made Yamamoto throw 25 pitches in the inning. Pfaadt, on the other hand, cruised through the second and third innings, retiring the Dodgers in order as he completed his first run through their lineup with only 27 pitched needed to record his first nine outs.
The Diamondbacks drew first blood as well in the top of the fourth, after Gabriel Moreno drew a six-pitch walk with one out and then got to third on a Max Kepler grounder that snuck through the right side of the infield and into right field for a single. Tim Tawa then hit a grounder to third that Max Muncy frankly made an amazing play on, but Moreno was running on contact and Muncy’s only play was to throw to first, where he just nabbed Tawa while Gabi crossed the plate for the first run of the game. 1-0 DBACKS
Pfaadt got himself into some trouble in the bottom half of the inning, as Ohtani lined a single to left and Andy Pag

The Los Angeles Dodgers are gearing up for the second game of a three-game series against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Saturday, July 11th.
After a rest day on Friday, Max Muncy returns to the batting order. He has been getting banged up during the first half of the season, taking a good number of knocks, meaning the Dodgers will be careful to give him some rest.
Additionally, he is playing in the All-Star Game on Tuesday, so Muncy will not get a typical break.
Shohei Ohtani, who is managing a knee injury, was pulled from his start on Friday, but stayed in the batting order — he remains there on Saturday as expected.
1. Shohei Ohtani, DH
2. Andy Pages, CF
3. Freddie Freeman, 1B
4. Mookie Betts, SS
5. Max Muncy, 3B
6. Kyle Tucker, RF
7. Teoscar Hernandez, LF
8. Dalton Rushing, C
9. Tommy Edman, 2B

The streak of no extra-inning games is finally over, and we can say that the Dodgers are undefeated in extras this season, walking it off against the Rockies 8-7 in the 11th inning. The decisive hit in this thrilling game came from the bat of Dalton Rushing with an RBI single, completing a terrific three-hit performance for the Dodgers catcher.
Before they had to dig deep for this victory, the Dodgers got to experience the thin line in baseball between control of a game and the illusion of it. The home team saw a 6-3 lead collapse in the ninth as Tanner Scott had his first blowup outing in over a month, walking multiple hitters for the first time this season.
To acquire that 6-3 lead, Shohei Ohtani and Eric Lauer were the protagonists. As if facing Ohtani in and of itself wasn't a daunting enough threat, Kyle Freeland did so for the second time in the third inning with a runner on base after allowing a leadoff double to Rushing. Whoever questioned the Ohtani-Rushing partnership in recent weeks needs to check their facts—it seemed to be working just fine when Ohtani gave the Dodgers their first lead of the game by driving in Rushing with a two-run homer, his 19th on the season and seventh against lefties—now just two short of 300 in his career.
This combination of Rushing and Ohtani would go on to lead the way for the Dodgers once again in the following inning. After Max Muncy and Miguel Rojas secured back-to-back RBI on a single and sac fly, respectively, Rushing once again set up Ohtani with a double, who then proceeded to drive in a pair, this time with just a two-run single.
Overall in this game, the four runs batted in by Ohtani represented a season-high mark at home and only the third time he's achieved that number or higher this season. Ohtani's three hits were also a season high for the reigning back-to-back NL MVP. All of that success that Ohtani and the rest of the Dodgers offense had against Freeland couldn't be replicated facing Zach Agnos, who tossed three scoreless innings to keep Colorado with a puncher's chance.

LOS ANGELES — Major League Baseball announced the 2026 All-Star Game starters on Saturday afternoon, and the Dodgers once again will be well represented in Philadelphia.
Ahead of Saturday night's matchup against the Padres, MLB revealed that five Dodgers earned National League All-Star honors: Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman, Max Muncy, Andy Pages and Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
Ohtani (designated hitter), Freeman (first base), Muncy (third base) and Pages (outfield) were all voted in as starters, while Yamamoto earned a pitching selection. It marks the third time in franchise history the Dodgers will have four All-Star starters, tying a club record.
The previous Dodgers teams to accomplish the feat were the 1980 club, with Steve Garvey, Davey Lopes, Bill Russell and Reggie Smith, and the 1974 team, featuring Ron Cey, Garvey, Andy Messersmith and Jim Wynn.
The biggest story of the group belongs to Andy Pages.

The Los Angeles Dodgers will be fielding five All-Stars at this year's game in Philadelphia.
Pitching-wise, the Dodgers get just one player, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and Shohei Ohtani, who may end up pitching — though likely not.
Additionally, Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman, Max Muncy, and Andy Pages are the four players who will start the game.
This is Pages' first-ever selection, and it is a very deserving one, playing outstanding defense in center field, while making real strides at the plate as a bat-to-ball guy.
Muncy is making his third All-Star Game, Freeman now has 10 appearances to his name, while Ohtani has six All-Star Games.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Teoscar Hernández hit a go-ahead grand slam off reliever Adrian Morejon in the seventh inning, and the Los Angeles Dodgers rallied for the second straight game to beat the San Diego Padres 4-3 on Friday night.
Trailing 3-0, Hernández sent a 90-mph slider on the first pitch from Morejon (6-2) over the wall in center field. Mookie Betts walked and Max Muncy singled to chase starter Michael King.
Padres second baseman Jake Cronenworth booted a grounder by Kyle Tucker that turned a potential double-play ball into the bases loaded with no outs. Muncy was safe at second on the miscue and Betts moved to third to set up Hernández's sixth career grand slam.
The Dodgers came back from a 6-0 deficit to win 12-7 in the series opener Thursday.
Kyle Hurt (3-1) earned the win with one inning of scoreless relief. Tanner Scott stuck out the side in the ninth to earn his 12th save.

Roki Sasaki only lasted three innings, and the Dodgers trailed 6-0 in the second inning. But it simply didn't matter because the offense roared into high gear in a 12-7 win over the San Diego Padres on Thursday night at Dodger Stadium.
The Dodgers tied their season high with 17 hits, and their 12 runs marked their 14th game scoring in double digits, matching their total for all of last season.
Dalton Rushing, who has started 18 of the last 24 games behind the plate, got the first two runs on the board with a home run in the second inning and also doubled, part of four hits, four RBI, and three runs scored on the night.
Max Muncy had an RBI double and Kyle Tucker an RBI single in the third inning to get the Dodgers closer. Tucker had hits in each of his first four at-bats and also walked, directly after walking all four times up Wednesday against the A's.
Another crooked number came in the fourth inning, with Andy Pages tying things up with a two-run double, followed by a Mookie Betts RBI double for the lead, and a Max Muncy single.

Roki Sasaki only lasted three innings, and the Dodgers trailed 6-0 in the second inning. But it simply didn't matter because the offense roared into high gear in a 12-7 win over the San Diego Padres on Thursday night at Dodger Stadium.
The Dodgers tied their season high with 17 hits, and their 12 runs marked their 14th game scoring in double digits, matching their total for all of last season.
Dalton Rushing, who has started 18 of the last 24 games behind the plate, got the first two runs on the board with a home run in the second inning and also doubled, part of four hits, four RBI, and three runs scored on the night.
Max Muncy had an RBI double and Kyle Tucker an RBI single in the third inning to get the Dodgers closer. Tucker had hits in each of his first four at-bats and also walked, directly after walking all four times up Wednesday against the A's.
Another crooked number came in the fourth inning, with Andy Pages tying things up with a two-run double, followed by a Mookie Betts RBI double for the lead, and a Max Muncy single.

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Dueling vuvuzelas, a leftover from the noisy World Cup in South Africa in 2010, provided the soundtrack during a World Cup watch party on Wednesday, July 1, at the Dayton Beer Company.
The horns have a unique sound, one that’s never going to fit in an orchestra but fits right in at soccer matches. In this case, they made hundreds of U.S. fans who gathered to watch the United States play Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Round of 32 feel like they were a part of something memorable — even though the game was played thousands of miles away in California.
I was one of those fans. I know from experience that the World Cup is best experienced in a large group. Michael Muncy, the founder and president of the Dayton chapter of the American Outlaws, the U.S. men’s national team’s fan club, agrees with that viewpoint.

Only one Max Muncy starts Tuesday.
Teams: Dodgers at Athletics
Ballpark: Sutter Health Park, West Sacramento
Time: 6:40 p.m.
TV: SportsNet LA

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Sal Stewart isn't quite as hot as he was at the start of this season with the Cincinnati Reds.
He still continues to show off his prodigious power, though.
Stewart hit his 16th home run of the season early in Wednesday night's action against the Milwaukee Brewers:
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Max Muncy is facing Max Muncy on Tuesday night.
No, this isn't an internal battle. It's the series everyone has been waiting for. Los Angeles Dodgers against the (formerly Oakland) Athletics. One Muncy vs. another.
Yep, there really are two MLB players named Muncy.
They're both healthy, which makes this a quirkily exciting time on the diamond for these two guys with a lot in common, beyond just their name.

WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Shohei Ohtani hit a three-run homer to support Eric Lauer in his conventional return to the starting rotation as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Athletics 9-4 on Monday night.
Max Muncy and Andy Pages also homered and joined Ohtani in a group of eight Dodgers with two hits apiece. Los Angeles manager Dave Roberts earned his 999th career victory.
Lauer (4-5) allowed three runs and nine hits in six innings, seven days after pitching six hitless innings of bulk relief and getting the win against Minnesota. The left-hander struck out two and walked one in his sixth appearance for the Dodgers and fifth start since they acquired him from Toronto for cash on May 17.
Kyle Hurt set down all three hitters he faced in the seventh on swinging strikeouts. Jonathan Hernández retired four batters and Jack Dreyer got the final two outs in the ninth.
Colby Thomas homered for the A's, who have lost seven of nine.

Max Muncy crushes a home run to center field to put the A's on the board with 1-0 lead in the top of the 8th

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Mookie Betts backed Shohei Ohtani with his 300th career home run, three hits and slick defense as the Los Angeles Dodgers finished a three-game sweep of the Minnesota Twins with a 4-3 victory on Wednesday night.
Ohtani helped himself with an RBI single to spark a three-run third inning against Twins starter Joe Ryan after the two-way superstar fell behind with a three-run second.
Max Muncy and Alex Call drove in the tying and go-ahead runs off Ryan for the MLB-leading Dodgers, and Tanner Scott pitched the ninth inning for his 11th save.
Betts, who won six Gold Glove awards as a right fielder before becoming the regular shortstop, snagged a grounder up the middle and fired an off-balance, on-target throw to first base to retire Ryan Kreidler and end the fourth with runners at second and third. Betts later made a sliding stop of a ground ball by Royce Lewis to get the last out of the sixth inning.
With the sensational Ohtani (8-2) on the mound and the Twins countering with their ace Ryan (5-4), Target Field was filled for an announced crowd of 39,853 and the first sellout of the season.

The 2026 MLB All-Star Game is a little more than three weeks away. Players are making pushes to represent their respective leagues in Philadelphia. Certain players have pushed through early-season slumps while others are continuing to perform at elite levels. Entering Week 14, here are the top 10 third basemen in the league.
MORE: MLB Power Rankings
Muncy has been one of the game’s best offensive third basemen when healthy. Unfortunately, health has plagued the veteran at different points in his career. This season, he’s stayed healthy and enters Week 14 as a home run leader among MLB third basemen.
Vargas is having a phenomenal season for the White Sox. Entering the week, he is one of two MLB third basemen with double-digit home runs and stolen bases. Barring a setback, he will be a member of the American League All-Star roster.
Junior Caminero has become one of the game’s brightest stars at third base. He’s producing great numbers in season two, following last year’s electric rookie season. The AL All-Star team’s starting third baseman is becoming a two-man race between Chicago’s Miguel Vargas and Tampa Bay’s Junior Caminero.

Jackson Chourio has a matchup with a homer-prone pitcher in a homer-amplifying ballpark tonight.
The MLB best home run bets have run well lately. Unfortunately, Jo Adell and the Dodgers’ Max Muncy didn’t hit home runs on Friday, dropping the season’s record for home run props to 13-44, with three no-bets.
Every article won’t provide winning home run bets. They’re rightfully priced at long odds because they’re long-shot wagers, and the two incorrect picks on Friday could be the start of a cold streak, as those are always just around the corner in this particular betting market.
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