Muncy’s Three‑Homer Walk‑Off

Max Muncy turned a game the Dodgers looked ready to waste into an 8-7 win on Friday, April 10, when he hit a two-out solo home run in the ninth inning against the Texas Rangers after already homering twice earlier in the night. The final swing made him the first player in Major League Baseball to hit three home runs in a game in the 2026 season. (apnews.com) The setup was messy enough to make the ending feel even bigger. Dodgers closer Edwin Díaz entered with a three-run lead, gave up a game-tying three-run homer to Ezequiel Durán, and then watched Muncy erase the damage one inning later. (espn.com) Texas had controlled long stretches of the game before that. Corey Seager put the Rangers ahead 3-1 with a three-run homer off Tyler Glasnow, and Wyatt Langford added a solo shot in the fifth for his first home run of the season. (apnews.com) Muncy kept answering with the simplest possible run production: one swing, one run. His first two home runs were solo shots, and his third came off left-hander Jacob Latz with two outs in the ninth. (sports.yahoo.com) He did more than just homer three times. Muncy finished four-for-five, which means he reached base with a hit in four of his five trips, and the Dodgers needed every bit of it in a one-run game. (mlb.com) The rest of the Dodgers’ offense mattered too, especially Andy Pages. Pages hit a two-run double and a two-run homer, giving Los Angeles four runs from his bat and three more from Muncy’s solo homers before the walk-off. (ocregister.com) That is part of why this game stood out beyond the highlight clip. It was the opener of a series between the last three World Series champions, and it swung from Rangers control to Dodgers collapse to Dodgers rescue in nine innings. (espn.com) For Muncy, the night also landed on the early edge of his 2026 stat line. He entered with one home run on the season and left with four, which is the kind of jump most sluggers take a week or two to build. (mlb.com) The Dodgers have had louder stars on the roster, but Muncy has been one of the franchise’s longest-running power bats since arriving in 2018. On this night, he gave them three separate jolts and then the last one, which is the swing everyone in the park went home talking about. (mlb.com)