Two dramatic MLB walk‑offs
The majors saw a wild night: Max Muncy launched the season’s first three‑homers in a single game — the finishing blast was a walk‑off — and Gavin Sheets later delivered a walk‑off for the White Sox against the Padres, so two games ended in dramatic fashion. (social recaps of Muncy’s 3‑homer night and Sheets’ walk‑off) (x.com) (x.com)
Los Angeles got the louder ending, but San Diego got the sequel: on Friday, April 10, Max Muncy hit three home runs and ended an 8-7 Dodgers win over Texas with a walk-off in the ninth, and a few hours later Gavin Sheets ended a 5-2 Padres win over Colorado with a three-run walk-off of his own. (mlb.com 1) (mlb.com 2) Muncy’s night was the rarer one. He went 4-for-5, hit his third homer with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, and became the first player in the 2026 Major League Baseball season to have a three-homer game. (mlb.com) (espn.com) The Dodgers almost wasted it. They led 7-4 before closer Edwin Díaz gave up the lead, and Muncy’s last swing off Jacob Latz turned a blown save into a win that kept Los Angeles from letting a power show disappear into the box score. (sports.yahoo.com) (espn.com) That game also moved Muncy up a franchise list that matters in Los Angeles. His second homer gave him 212 as a Dodger, passing Steve Garvey for sole possession of third place on the club’s career home run list behind Ron Cey and Eric Karros. (newsday.com) San Diego’s finish looked different because the Padres trailed 2-0 going to the ninth. Sheets had already homered earlier, then came up again after Colorado’s Victor Vodnik put two men on, and he hit a three-run shot that ended the game at Petco Park. (mlb.com) The Padres had done this the night before too. Xander Bogaerts delivered a walk-off on Thursday, April 9, and Sheets followed with another on Friday, which turned one dramatic finish into back-to-back nights of it in San Diego. (mlb.com) Sheets is also not some random bench cameo. Major League Baseball’s player page lists him as a Padres left fielder, and his profile notes that he joined San Diego before the 2025 season and then produced career highs last year with 19 home runs and 71 runs batted in. (mlb.com) So the same night gave baseball two different versions of late drama: one game where a star slugger had to rescue his own masterpiece after a bullpen collapse, and another where a team that had been quiet for eight innings erased the whole night with one swing. (espn.com) (mlb.com)
