Max Muncy Reacts to Extra-Base Robbery in Braves Loss

Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman Max Muncy jokingly shared his thoughts after a spectacular play robbed him of extra bases Sunday.

Muncy stepped up to the plate with two outs and the bases loaded in the bottom of the sixth with the Dodgers trailing by four runs. He scorched a ball to right field on a full count, forcing a ridiculous jumping catch out of Eli White which sent the right fielder crashing into the wall.

The lineout had a .954 expected batting average, and would have been a home run in four MLB stadiums: The Reds’ Great American Ballpark, the Tigers’ Comerica Park, the Yankees’ Yankee Stadium and the Phillies Citizen’s Bank Park.

“Who do I gotta pay off at this point?” Muncy said of the play.

Rather than three runs coming to score, the Dodgers posted another goose egg and didn’t score until the eighth, when the game had just about been put out of reach. Muncy drove in the Dodgers’ only two runs of the game with a two-run shot in the bottom of the eighth—his 10th homer of the season.

“We have some guys that aren’t in the spot that they want to be in right now, and they’re trying to figure that out,” Muncy said. “It’s kind of tough to compete when you’re trying to figure things out. We’ve preached that in the past sometimes, that you got to just forget about everything you’re doing off the field, and when you get in the batter’s box, you just have to compete.”