Max Muncy’s honest Dodgers admission will catch fans’ attention

The Los Angeles Dodgers have found their rhythm again, and Max Muncy has an explanation for it.

Muncy, the longest-tenured player on the roster and a three-time World Series champion who recently reached his 10-year service-time mark, said the Dodgers had strayed from the fundamentals that carried them for most of the 2026 season. He credited a return to that approach with sparking a three-game sweep of the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field.

The sweep followed a difficult stretch that included a 1-3 series against the Milwaukee Brewers, owners of baseball’s best record, part of a broader slide in which Los Angeles went 9-11 over its previous 20 games and 15-15 over its previous 30. The Dodgers took down the Rockies 11-5, then 7-6, and won the extra-innings finale 6-4, improving to 77-51 and remaining in first place in the NL West. Muncy launched a 461-foot three-run home run in the series opener, one of the longest by a Dodger this season, and Shohei Ohtani also factored into the sweep. The Dodgers have won seven of their last ten games.

Muncy made the comments during an appearance on Dodgers Territory, a branch of the Foul Territory TV Network. The outlet later posted a clip of the conversation on X, formerly Twitter, after the interview with the 35-year-old slugger.

“It’s something we’d done so well all year long, and we hadn’t been as good over the last couple of weeks.”