Max Muncy stared into the right-field bleachers and searched for the fligh tpath of his latest home run. He allowed his bat to roll from his fingers and fall to the dirt, a subtle gesture which has become his signature in his sterling first season as a Dodger. The baseball soared deep into the night, one salvo in a fourth inning stocked with them, in a game stocked with them, a 17-1 demolition of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Muncy studied his 18th blast of the season but tucked his head down before it landed. It was one of three homers swatted off Pirates pitcher Nick Kingham on Monday, and it occurred just moments after Joc Pederson went deep.