MLB Rankings: Baseball’s Greatest Hits of Week-21
By Bill Felber
MLB Rankings: Greatest Hits in Week-21
5. Max Muncy, 42 percent
Another week, another Dodger walk-off.
It was the 11th time already this season that a Dodger had delivered a walk-off hit, and the second time Muncy was that Dodger. He had walked off the San Diego Padres two weeks earlier. The victims this time were the Toronto Blue Jays, shut out by Walker Buehler and the Dodger pen until the ninth inning when Rowdy Tellez touched Kenley Jansen for a game-tying home run.
It was only Toronto’s sixth hit of the night.
Chris Taylor gave Los Angeles a chance to win in regulation when he opened the bottom of the ninth with a base hit. But Jason Adams coaxed a double-play grounder out of Matt Beaty, and the game went into extra innings.
In the top of the 10th, Pedro Baez worked around a two-out base on balls to Vlad Guerrero Jr., retiring Bo Bichette on a popup to end the inning. Jays manager Charley Montoya called on Tim Mayza to work the bottom of the 10th, and Mayza retired Enrique Hernandez before facing Muncy.
Mayza’s first pitch to Muncy was a ball. The second was fat enough for Muncy to send it into the bleachers deep in right-center field, a no-doubter that sealed another Dodger victory. One night later they would walk off the Jays once again, this time on a single by Hernandez.