Muncy’s 3‑HR walk‑off

Max Muncy turned a 7-7 game into an 8-7 Dodgers win with a two-out home run in the ninth inning on Friday, after already homering in the second and fifth innings against Texas. He finished 4 for 5, and it was the first three-home-run game of the 2026 Major League Baseball season. (mlb.com) (espn.com) The Dodgers needed every swing because their bullpen gave back a late lead. Texas trailed 7-4 before Corey Seager hit a three-run homer, and Edwin Díaz blew his first save before Muncy ended it at Dodger Stadium. (espn.com) (apnews.com) Three-home-run games are rare by themselves. A three-home-run game that ends with a walk-off is rarer still, and The Athletic reported Muncy was the first player to do it in the majors since Jack Suwinski on June 19, 2022. (nytimes.com) (mlb.com) This was also not a random bench bat getting hot for one night. Muncy is 35, he has been one of the Dodgers’ core left-handed power hitters for years, and he told manager Dave Roberts before the game that he felt close even though the results had not shown up yet. (apnews.com) (espn.com) That matters because the Dodgers do not need Muncy to carry the lineup every night, but they look different when he is driving the ball. On this night, he and Andy Pages combined to go 7 for 8, score 7 runs, drive in 7 runs, and hit 4 home runs. (sports.yahoo.com) (dodgersdigest.com) The win pushed Los Angeles to 10-3, the best record in Major League Baseball at the end of the night. It also came against a Texas club that had reached the World Series recently, which gave the game more weight than a routine April shootout. (espn.com 1) (espn.com 2) The strange part is how fast a game like this rewrites the mood around a hitter. A week of weak contact can make a veteran look old, and one night with three clean home runs can make the same swing look fixed. (apnews.com) (espn.com) By the time Muncy circled the bases in the ninth, the Dodgers had escaped a blown save, erased the sting of Seager’s late homer, and turned an ordinary Friday in April into one of the season’s first instant replays. The box score will always show 8-7, but the part people will remember is that all three of Muncy’s home runs were needed. (mlb.com) (espn.com)