On I-Cub Opening Day in Des Moines this year, I bundled up and took a seat right behind the bullpen of the Oklahoma City Dodgers. During that first game of this 2018 season, Max Muncy (sounds like a private eye, don’t you think?) grounded a foul ball down the right field line into the pen. A Dodger reliever retrieved it and casually flipped it to me, the 64-year-old kid shivering in the front row.
Ever since, both Muncy and I are having great seasons.
He was called up by Los Angeles later in April and slugged enough homers to put him in the running for the final spot on the National League All-Star team.