Max Muncy drives in seven runs off two homers in Dodgers’ win

The updating of Shohei Ohtani, in particular one day he launches, is not an easy task.

But at the Dodger Stadium Sunday afternoon, his teammate Max Muncy did it twice-hitting two circuits and equaling a career summit with seven produced points to raise the Dodgers to a 13-7 defeat of the Washington Nationals, and make Ohtani more diapliation at his second start to the season.

Despite two stick withdrawals on a first -rate nonsense of Ohtani to start the day, the Dodger stadium had been seated in relative silence for the next five rounds.

Ben Casparius, who replaced the Ohtani at the immobile workload on the mound in the second, abandoned a three -point home run in the third, when a Flyball diverted the Hyeseong Kim glove on the wall before hitting a fan reaching the barrier.

Michael Soroka, the former All-Star who became an inconsistent companion, held the Dodgers Hitless in the fifth, accumulating a career summit of 10 stick withdrawals while protecting the 3-0 advance.

At the end of the sixth, however, an opportunity for Dodgers finally presented itself.

Dalton Rushing led with a double of energy on the ground in slices on the line of the left field. Ohtani has been walking with the help of two favorable ball calls. Freddie Freeman seriously faced a 0 and 2 count on a wild slurve from Soroka who struck her foot.

And suddenly, the nationals had to go to the enclosure of the lifts, summoning the left -hander Jose A. Ferrer to cope with Muncy with the loaded bases.

After only three locations in Muncy, Ferrer called the field crew to rake the mound and smooth his landing area on the slope.

But on the plate, he gave Muncy time to think about his at-bat against Ferrer the previous night, mentally locking what to expect and resumes his breath in the biggest moment of the game.

“When he’s ready, he’s ready,” said Muncy. “And let’s swing.”

Muncy made on each of the following two locations, enclosing a cutting lead in the center before lining the next left for a large slam of crazy script and deficit and Go-Ahead.

“I saw the guy last night, so I had a good idea of ​​what he threw in there and how to approach him,” said Muncy. “I was trying to keep the ball from the ground, to take something in the air, to make at least one race. I’m just trying to do a job. And I had a good swing and I had the ball in a good place. ”

Ohtani started the day as the main attraction.

The Dodgers launcher, Shohei Ohtani, delivers the first round against the Nationals on Sunday.

(Luke Johnson / Los Angeles Times)

The double-meaning star attracted a crowd while riding on the ground for pre-match warstings and detached in the enclosure of left-wing readers-which prompted fans even in the bridge at the higher reserve to rely on the railings and take a look at his double-role talents.

And once the match started, Ohtani climbed to the top of the mound and showed progress from the beginning of the season as a six -day launcher before.

“I thought he was considerably better today,” said manager Dave Roberts. “The thing, the life of the quick ball, the command of its locations – much better.”

Ohtani’s aimless round included with withdrawals from Luis Garcia Jr. on a sweeper and Nathaniel Lowe on a cutter, representing his first stick withdrawals since his return from Tommy John. He worked around a pop-up in the interior field of Mookie Betts in an output elsewhere and 12 laps elsewhere. He hit 99 MPH with his quick ball while mixing a good dose of sweepers, cutters and separators to complete it.

The star of dodgers, Shohei Ohtani, hits a home run in eighth round Sunday against the Nationals.

(Luke Johnson / Los Angeles Times)

“Overall, I was able to relax much better compared to my last outing,” said Ohtani, who noted that the Sunday start plan was to be limited to a single round.

“I think it’s just about trying to get the foundation, the constituent elements because it takes bats,” added Roberts. “Get a round here, a round there, then progressively progress.”

Ohtani has also appeased recent questions about the question of whether his return to pitch affected his bat.

After entering the day of the two for 19 in five games since his recovery in two directions, Ohtani helped the Dodgers (48-31) stop late. In the seventh, he laced a triple of three points loaded with bases and three points in front of the first base bag, transforming a narrow advance into a race into a comfortable cushion with four scores on the Nationals (32-46). In the eighth, he added more insurance, surrounding a two -point circuit on the center left field for his 26th Ballon of the National League.

“When he goes into the main field, I think he is really, really good,” said Roberts. “So today was good. And I hope it is soothing the noise with the days he launches.”

In order not to be outdone, however, Muncy raised the bet in these last sleeves, after the triple of seventh round of Ohtani with a Home Run of three points towards three strikers later.

“You look at the last 30 days, I think it has been our best striker,” said Roberts. “We have never hesitated in our trust, and we have shown it, and it has proven everything to us.”

Indeed, Sunday continued a superb return of mid -season for Muncy – giving it an average of .305 with 10 circuits and 38 points produced during its last 39 games; Compared to an average of .177, to a home run and seven points produced in its first 35 games.

He made it pass in third place among the third basic players in the National League this season with a .815 OPS – which made a player who once seemed to be for commercial rumors this summer on the sidelines of the stars conversation.

And, he managed to go beyond the versatile production that Ohtani posted in his double-way recall, raising the Dodgers to a victory in the weekend series and 7-3 record in total on this 10 game homes.

“It is definitely a snowball effect,” said Muncy. “Confidence is raised right now.”