Max Muncy has had a season to forget for the Dodgers, batting .174 with an OPS of .649 which is 15 percent below league average. On the other hand, his average and OPS were at .158 and .609, respectively, just eight games ago. Muncy has hit safely in seven of those eight games, batting .321 with a .394 on-base percentage and a .643 slugging percentage in that time. Twenty-five percent of Muncy’s doubles and 18 percent of his homers have come in the past week.
To put it bluntly, Muncy is heating up.
After a huge home run on Saturday night turned a 3-2 deficit into a 5-3 lead, Muncy had some interesting comments about the Dodgers offense (via Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic):
“It kinda seems like our lineup has been forgotten about with a lot of this stuff that has been happening.