The Dodgers have opened up their second homestand on a strong note after a successful road trip where they averaged 8.67 runs per game and took five of six contests. While players such as Andy Pages and Freddie Freeman flourished over the six-game stretch, Max Muncy looked as if to be starting the season on an opposite note.<\/p>\n
Muncy had only four hits and two walks across 25 plate appearances away from home and was out of the starting lineup in the series finale against the Washington Nationals, and returned home hitting just .216 with a .623 OPS. In his first game back at home, Muncy lit a spark and had a monstrous three-home run game, the last of which being a walk-off home run to give the Dodgers an 8-7 victory over the Texas Rangers on Friday.<\/p>\n
The early results so far are indicative of the offseason regiment that Muncy underwent this past offseason, which included losing 17 lbs, and he is feeling much healthier than he was at the end of the World Series, per Bill Plunkett of the Orange County Register<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cMost importantly, I feel like my feet are moving on every ground ball,\u201d Muncy said. \u201cThat\u2019s something I\u2019ve always struggled with in the past. I just get stuck a little bit, and that puts me in bad positions on certain hops, but I feel like everything is moving fluidly and I just feel healthy.\u201d<\/p>\n It took two weeks of regular season play for Shohei Ohtani to hit his first home run in front of the home crowd, and it came via a leadoff shot in Saturday\u2019s win against Texas that also extended his league-leading on-base streak to 45 games.<\/p>\n