LOS ANGELES — Max Muncy isn’t the Dodgers player many would guess as the franchise’s all-time postseason home run leader, but it all computes.
As the team’s longest-tenured position player, Muncy has shined for the Dodgers during a period of prosperity (with more postseason rounds than ever) that rivals or surpasses any in club history. On Saturday, in Game 2 of the World Series, he delivered his 15th career postseason homer to extend his all-time Dodgers lead.
“Being at the top of anything in this organization is really hard for me to wrap my head around,” Muncy said Sunday before a workout at Dodger Stadium. “It’s A really historically significant franchise, a lot of tremendous players — Hall of Famers — have come out of this organization. Just to be able to top that category means a lot.”
Muncy, who has played for the Dodgers since 2018, claimed the top spot alone with a homer during the NLCS that moved him ahead of Justin Turner and Corey Seager. Muncy has played 74 postseason games for the Dodgers.
In comparison, Duke Snider, who is fourth on the all-time Dodgers list with 11 homers, played only 36 postseason games (all in the World Series).
In a lineup that features Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman, it might be easy to overlook Muncy, but it’s not recommended.
“Everyone does focus on the top of the lineup,” Muncy said. “But that’s where we have been able to win so many games is that it’s not always necessarily the top that’s doing the damage for us. It’s just the depth we have in the lineup.”
“That is something I have always been proud to be a part of. Doc [Roberts] can slot me wherever he feels like it. I am not a guy that has an ego up there, and wherever he feels like it helps the lineup out the best he puts me in and I take pride in that.”
Bo Bichette, who returned to the Blue Jays lineup for Game 1 of the World Series after missing seven weeks with a left knee sprain, will start again at second base on Monday, according to manager John Schneider. Bichette was on the bench for Game 2.
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