Muncy’s three‑homer night

Max Muncy turned a game the Dodgers were about to waste into an 8-7 win on April 10 by hitting three home runs, and the last one came with two outs in the ninth inning as a walk-off against the Texas Rangers at Dodger Stadium. The Dodgers became the first Major League Baseball team to reach 10 wins this season with that swing. (mlb.com) The night started with the Rangers punching first, because former Dodger Corey Seager hit a three-run homer off Tyler Glasnow in the opening inning for a 3-1 lead. Texas added another run in the fifth on Wyatt Langford’s first homer of the season and kept forcing Los Angeles to chase. (espn.com) Muncy kept dragging the Dodgers back one swing at a time. He homered in the second inning, homered again in the sixth, and then came up in the ninth after Texas had tied the game at 7-7 in the top half. (mlb.com) That tie in the ninth is part of why the finish felt so wild. Edwin Díaz, pitching for Los Angeles, blew his first save of 2026 when Ezequiel Durán singled home the tying run, so Muncy’s last at-bat came after the Dodgers had already watched a late lead disappear. (espn.com) He did not just have a three-homer game; he had a three-homer game that ended the game. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Muncy became only the second Dodger to hit three home runs in a game that also included a walk-off shot, joining Don Demeter on April 21, 1959. (mlb.com) That kind of line is rare across the whole sport, not just in Dodgers history. The Athletic noted Muncy was the first Major League Baseball player to hit three home runs with one of them a walk-off since Jack Suwinski did it for Pittsburgh on June 19, 2022. (nytimes.com) The box score looked almost made up by the end: Muncy went 4 for 5, scored five runs, and drove in three, while Andy Pages added a two-run double and a two-run homer of his own. Together, Muncy and Pages accounted for four of the Dodgers’ eight runs batted in and four home runs. (dailybreeze.com) Muncy’s night also changed his early-season stat line in one burst. ESPN’s player page showed him at four home runs through 12 games after entering Friday with one, which means he tripled his season total in about three hours. (espn.com) The opponent made the ending sharper, because this was the opener of a series between the last three World Series champions. Texas won in 2023, Los Angeles won in 2024, and both clubs spent Friday trading home runs until Muncy hit the one nobody could answer. (espn.com)