Dodgers Territory - Max Muncy Talks Dodgers Season, His Career in LA and More!

Episode Date: August 20, 2026

Three-time World Series champion, three-time National League All-Star, and Los Angeles Dodgers legend Max Muncy joins Katie Woo and Clint Pasillas to talk about the season and the club's quest for a threepeat, his career in Dodger blue and much more! Use our code for 10% off your next order of MLB tickets on SeatGeek*: seatgeek.onelink.me/RrnK/TERRITORY10 Sponsored by SeatGeek. *Restrictions apply. Max $20 discount Start your FOX One 3-day Free trial today at FOXOne.com  Subscribe on YouTube!https://www.youtube.com/@DodgersTerritory  Follow our social media channels for more content!https://x.com/LADTerritory https://www.instagram.com/ladterritory/ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61578546105253  Check out DT merch at https://dodgersterritoryshop.com Support Guidry's Guardian at https://guidrysguardian.org Find Clint on YouTube at https://youtube.com/@alldodgers Follow Katie's work at The Athletic https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/author/katie-woo/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I still have more to do in the postseason and the regular season. Welcome back to Dodgers Territory, Katie Wu, Kempasia, Satchew, Alana Rizzo. assignment. We're going to skip all the intros, the usual, because we have a very special guest joining us today. He doesn't need an introduction. I'm going to give him one anyway. Very dramatic. Third basement for the Los Angeles Dodgers, 2026 All-Star, the record holder for the most homils at Dodgers Stadium. Max Lentzy, thanks for joining us. Of course. Thanks for having me on, guys. Do it, Mauds. Get us started, Wu. All right. Let's just go right into it. The Colorado series came.

at a great time. I was not there, but you guys looked much better on TV. What was kind of the overall mindset coming in on Monday, quick three game series? Was it just, hey, fresh slate, let's take care of business here? Yeah, I mean, it's the same mindset that we have every single time we show up to the park. You know, you have a game in front of you. You try to take care of business. You do whatever you have to do to win that game and you move on to the next. You know, you kind of don't let anything else enter into the conversation. And, you know, that's, that's, that's a formula that's been worrying for us for a lot of years, and we always continue to preach that.

And sometimes when you go through rough stretches, it gets a little bit harder to just focus on the day and not think about what's been happening in the previous several games. But, you know, for us, it was kind of just to get back to basics and, you know, just trying to focus on the day that we had ahead of us. And, you know, I thought we did a really good job with that. You know, I'm generally somebody that hates Coorsfield. A beautiful ballpark and all that,

but I hate when you guys go to Coorsfield. this feels like something bad is going to happen. But would you say that series, like just to wake the boys up came at the right time? Yeah, I mean, sure. You know, it's always a great place to go in and hit. The opposite of that, though, is sometimes it's not a great place to go in pitch. So I, for me, I was very impressed with how all of our pitchers handled the environment, you know, starting with Snow, game one. And then Lauer did a great job game two.

And Roki looked great yesterday. you know, just the pitching staff, I thought, did a really great job of not letting the environment affect them. And for us offensively, I thought, you know, obviously the results were great, but just the best we were having in certain situations looked a lot better. And, you know, that's something that we needed to be focusing on. And, you know, like you said, Colorado is, it's just one of those places. You're playing on the moon. Anything happened. And, you know, no lead is ever safe there.

You know, so for us having that mindset of just we need to keep adding on, keep adding on, I think that was great for us. We heard from you Sunday after the Brewer Series. We heard from Dave Roberts throughout the week. There just needed to be a recommitment, I think, to play in the little things, the Dodger way of baseball. It looked a lot better, again, over the Rockies. But one thing that we hear about the Dodgers, certainly I did from afar, and now I'm seeing it firsthand, is you guys are so experienced. And this is a core that doesn't really need any kind of extra motivation. You know how to go out there and do your jobs every day.

So how do you keep that mindset so consistent where that's just the expected culture in the clubhouse? Yeah, you know, that's just something that's been created over many, many years. And, you know, honestly, it started before I even got here. But you just, you focus on the things that you're supposed to do right. And, you know, one of the things for me that I thought was back to how we play baseball in Colorado was, you know, the base running. We were taking the extra bases when needed. We weren't making outs when we weren't supposed to. We were doing the little things right. And that's something that we had done so good all year long. And the last couple of weeks, we've been, you know, not as good. We've been forced,

you know, making force outs on the bases, just stuff that we shouldn't be doing. And we kind of got back to playing the game how we played it, you know, last couple of days. And so, you know, going back to your question, I think, it's just, we've, just created this culture where that's that's the focus um you know we we preach it every single day starting back in spring training and uh we we don't let it ever get away from that and when it starts getting away from that we we always rein it back in and we we continue to preach you know years take it one day at a time you're focused on this don't let things go out there do your routine make sure you what you're working on and um you know it's it's worked really well for us

um you guys got kyle tucker in that clubhouse hasn't been the greatest of years for him. Everybody has down years. Obviously, he's, he's battling. He's trying to figure some things out, figure out ways to contribute to this team, and we've seen it. How does the team, you know, this group that has been together for so long? How do you kind of, you know, help keep him, not motivated, but just like, don't worry about it. Everything's going to be fine. The season doesn't meet, 162 doesn't mean anything to the Dodgers anyways. It's about the postseason. We know we're going to get there. Like, how do you kind of, you know, put your arm around him, and tell him a famous Alana line here,

it's going to be great. What's the motivation and help for Tuck? I mean, you just let him know that you're there for him. You know, it's this first year in L.A. You know, he's a cross country from his home. It's the first year with a new baby for him. You know, obviously the big con. There's a lot of things, you know, going on right now.

And he has to find a way to battle through all that. So the biggest thing that we can do is just let him know that we're there for him. And, you know, we have his back no matter what. And he's part of this team. He's part of this clubhouse. And nothing's ever going to change that. No matter how good or bad someone plays, you're part of this team and you're part of the family. And so for us, that's always the biggest thing is just let him know that we're there.

Max, we're going to change it to a topic that I'm sure you're going to love talking about. We're going to talk about yourself and your performance this year. I know. I'm sorry. But we got to hype you up on the show. It feels like this season. You look at the numbers. some of your best numbers on both sides of the ball in the past few years, the all-star birth.

You could just share that with your family, recently celebrated 10 years of service time, which is a huge deal. Do you feel like this 26 season is kind of your resurgence year? What has it been like to celebrate all of these things? Yeah, it's been, you know, it's been a great year. And honestly, the biggest thing that comes out of it is I've been healthy. You know, you look at my last couple of years and the numbers and the pace have been, been very similar. It's just I haven't been healthy. And so I haven't been able to, you know,

put up the numbers throughout an entire year. But, you know, they're very similar with what they have been the last couple of years. It's just this year, I've been healthy. And, you know, that's been the biggest thing for me. And obviously I've been way better on defense this year, too. But that's just, you know, the culmination of hard work and just the understanding of the position. And a lot of things coming to fruition finally with that. But, yeah, the biggest thing for me is just being healthy. And that's the biggest thing that I've been proud of this year is, you know, finding a way, stay on the field. You know, the third base thing is something I wanted to talk to you about

because people talk about, you know, Mookie, moving to shortstop and the insanity of that, which it is the fact that he is a gold glove shortstop, just hasn't won the hardware for it. But I like to talk about Max Muncie, playing wherever this team needs over nine seasons. You've been fantastic at first base in the past, only displaced by a future Hall of Famer and Freddie Freeman, just putting in the work at third base, a position you vocally hated, or let's say hate. Maybe it's a strong word. Okay, you agree. Vocally hated. Now it's a spot where you're pretty flipping good at it. What goes into that work? And I think you getting good at third base. And by the way, we're just getting going with the Muncie Glaze here. You putting in that work, that is part of the whole Max Muncie as a Los Angeles Dodger. It's always about grinding, getting better, and you see it at third base.

Yeah, I mean, look, my whole life defense has always been the thing that's been questioned about me. You know, I was always told that I could hit and I was going to do things, but defense was always the question about me. And so that's just from an early age, I learned how to put in the work defensively. And, you know, when given enough time, every position I played, I've been able to get good at, you know, I thought I was very good at second base. At first base, I was extremely good. I should have won a gold glove, but came in second one year. and then we bring in a guy like you said,

a future Hall of Famer to kick me off the position the next year. You know, it's just, I understand how to work and that's a, not only do I understand how to work,

I love to work. And I feel like that's a huge thing when it comes to it is you have to, you have to love to work at your profession. And, you know, that's something that I've always

really enjoyed. I love going out there, putting on the work, because it helps you understand it, helps you understand the game, you know, the position. how you're playing it.

And I feel like it just increases your knowledge of the game in general. And for me, you know, baseball has always been everything. And so just the more knowledge I can have about the game of baseball, the better I feel about it. And the better I feel about putting myself out there and putting myself in a good position to help the team win. And, you know, that's just, like I said, it's many years of hard work and understanding. And the biggest jump was just getting the knowledge. And a lot of that was talking with Mookie because when he moved to shortstop, he had to learn, you know, the knowledge of how to play shortstop,

not just going out there and putting in the work, you know, that's something that I think a lot of people kind of push to the side is, yeah, you can go out there and take ground balls, you know, for seven hours a day,

but if you're not getting the knowledge of how you're doing it, you know, what are you doing with your footwork? What are you doing with your hands? Why should you be doing that? You know, for me, that was one of the biggest jumps.

It was just kind of understanding how my body and how I feel ground, ground balls work work properly. And one of those things for me was learning how to field one-handed. You know, my entire life, it's both hands, you know, gator, whatever you want to call it. You feel the two hands, you funnel it to the body. And for me, it was understanding that I was much better one-handed and not funneling, kind of pushing through the ball.

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If you were going to take yourself out of this equation and you're looking at the season so far, Which teammate stands out to you in terms of the most impressive season you feel like they're having? Oh, man. It's tough to single guys out with this question because there's so many guys having good years. But, you know, off the bat, I think Andy Pahas just jumps out there. You know, the work that he put in defensively becoming one of the best centerfielders in baseball, his throwing, he's one of the best throwers in baseball. It's a cannon for an arm.

It's super accurate. you know he's he's always hitting the cutoff guy and uh that's something that you just don't see a lot with the young players sometimes they always want to show off the arm and they overthrow the cutoff guy and um you know offensively obviously his numbers are amazing and just for him i there was a clear emphasis on dialing back swinging out of the zone i feel like he's done a really good job of that so far this year and he's he's only getting better he's been taking more walks and um you know he's he's only going to continue to get better. So for me, he kind of jumped off the page for me this

year just the year that he's been having. Woo, go ahead and follow. All right. This is another one. And I like to preface this one with I usually ask about one dumb question today. You're well aware of this by now. This one I feel like is for you specifically, one thing about Max Muncie, the lore

is the bad drop. And I would like to know, because you've hit so many this year. What goes through your mind is when you decide if it's a bat drop, a bad drop, a bat toss, a bat chuck. I don't know. Is it like an out-of-body experience? Do you just let the moment take over?

Because you've had some good ones this year. Yeah, it's usually kind of just like an emotional thing. When you connect on the ball and you're able to hit it to, you know, like a no-doubt shot that you just know immediately is gone right off the bat before you even seeing the trajectory. Like it's just a certain kind of feeling. And so, you know, depending on the situation of the game, what inning you're in. and it just kind of becomes like an emotional outburst for me. You know, I think you guys know me. I'm not super, you know, emotional on the field in terms of, you know, showing things.

And so the bad flip or bad drop has always been my, you go, kind of outburst of emotion. And it just kind of happens. It's not planned. There's no thought behind it. It's just whatever comes out comes out. And, you know, the only thought behind any of that for me is always it's, it's make sure you're not like. like throwing it at the pitcher. You're not disrespecting the pitch. Even though you hit a home run off him, it's not about, you know, him. It's about you. And that for me is always, and that's why I never get

mad if pitchers celebrate their strikeouts. It's not about you. It's about them getting out of a situation and they're excited about it. And, you know, that's just kind of how it is. Quick, quick follow on that. I'm sure you've seen, uh, I was a Jeffrey Yan with, with the Mets. He has the jump in the celebration. I think he's doing double. barrel like, like, you know, finger guns there. When, like, I'm all for letting the kids play and all that, I think baseball is fun. It's supposed to be entertaining. But when does, and we're not saying this, he is, what he's doing is too much.

But when does it become too much? You know, that's a good question. And it's kind of a tough question. Yeah, I feel like when it's no longer about your performance and it's about you, trying to put on a show. And I know that's kind of a weird statement, but like, you know, if you give, for me, like if you're a pitcher and you give up, you know, two base hits or run scores and then you get that strike out and then you're doing the celebration, it's like, well, he didn't really

do your job, did you? You just wanted to do something to make it a show. Now, you strike out the side, cartwheel off the mound. I don't care. But like, you know, like, it's kind of the same thing with, you know, when you, when you hit a home run. If it's a seven to one game and you hit a solo home run to make a seven to two and then you're back peddling around the basis, it's like, okay, that's not the time for that. To me, it's all about kind of the situation of the game and the circumstances leading up to it.

And, you know, the other thing for me too also is for like starting pitchers, I never like when starting pitchers celebrate before they're coming out of the game. I always feel like if we're facing a team in the postseason and I see the guy. screaming and fist pumping in the second inning and he still have to get through three more innings. I'm like, oh, we got this guy. He's given up way too much emotion and energy too early in this game. Like, we got this guy. So I don't like when starting pitchers do the whole emotion in like the

first or second inning because you still got a lot of endings you got to get through. Yeah. Save it for five, six, seven. Then really let out a let out a Yamamoto roar. That's what we're here for. Katie said she was going to make you feel a little uncomfortable. I'm going to make it a little bit more. So she also mentioned 10 years in the again, congrats for that. That is awesome. Nine seasons of those, of course, in Dodger Blue.

I've been somebody who's been hard on the paint or hard in the paint about talking about Max Muncie, Dodgers legend. I know you don't want to hear that kind of stuff, but you look up and down franchise numbers and all this. Of course, we've talked a whole lot this year. Second on the all-time L.A. Dodger Homer leaderboard behind Eric Caros. most homers in postseason franchise history at 16 most walks in postseason history 65 postseason runs two things that are massively important to win in baseball games walks and run scored 46 runs there when you hear and you're not done yet you still got career to go thankfully when you hear Dodgers legend max munsey what does that do is it give you like the ugeys is just something like like kersh where you don't even want to think about the numbers until you're done

Yeah, you know, it is something that I don't want to think about yet. You know, I'm still in the moment. I'm still still living the dream and still, you know, playing successfully. And I feel like if you sit down and you start reflecting on a lot of that stuff and you start thinking about, man, I'm doing this. I'm doing that. I feel like you're, you're allowing yourself to get a little complacent with it. And you, in thinking that you've already accomplished something. And I feel like there's still so much more to accomplish. And, you know, and so there will come a day when I can sit down and reflect on all this. think about the career that I've had, but it's like, you know, I still want to keep going. We still have more championships to win. I still have more to do in the postseason and the regular season. And, you know, nothing for me is accomplished yet. And, you know, we are getting close to that point, but, you know, there's still a lot more to do. And that's kind of how I've always felt about it is I don't like reflecting on that stuff because then I don't have a path forward because I'm too busy looking in the past. You know, I want to. I always keep moving forward with my career and keep accomplishing more and more things and most importantly keep winning.

And, you know, that's always been the goal for me. Music to Dodgers fans' ears, who I'm sure would like to see nobody else in Dodger Blue for the rest of his career. Max Munzi, thank you so much for joining us here on Dodgers territory. We appreciate it. A lot more to come on the show. First, though, a quick word from Seek. Well, I got that. Don't worry, I got that.

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but should be a good couple of matches. Of course, the game will be on Fox on Saturday. But what do you like about the Probables in the series and what do you like about the Dodgers being back home trying to keep that momentum going? Yeah, it's a good matchup for pitching enthusiasts, as you saw Quinn. No, Paul Skeens for Pittsburgh, but you get Yamamoto Scoobel Snell over the weekend. You're feeling pretty good about riding the high that was Colorado.

Look, a sweep is a sweep, and it's hard to play in Denver as we've talked about. I wouldn't say the Dodgers played flawless baseball. They also lost Eben Diaz. But at the end of the day, it was a better overall product. Still far from, I think, what we expect the Dodgers to look like on a daily basis, but certainly trending in the right direction. Throwing out your three top guns against the Pirates team, you know, around fourth place in the NL Central should help.

But they got a hit and they got to play better defense. I really like what Max Muncie said also about the base running. Again, thanks Max for joining. just great step at the top of the show. But he was spot on with his analysis about the base running with the Dodgers. We spent the majority of the first half talking about how Los Angeles

really took advantage of other teams making outs on the bases and we were running into two outs and we saw a lot more of that throughout August than I think we have all year from the Dodgers. So got to clean it up on the base pass otherwise the pitching doesn't really matter. Yeah, dog days of summer.

Yeah, you see sometimes maybe the brain wanders a little bit there. But yeah, looking at this series, Yamamoto, Scoobel, Snell, is that a postseason order right there? Is that your one, two, three? Do they try to break up the lefties, scoobul game one? If you put yourself, you're in Dave Roberts seat right now, you got all the wine and tequila behind you in the desk. We'll save that for after the show. What's your postseason order right now if the postseason ended?

That's a great question. Yes. I'm trying not to think about the happy hour coming my way after the show. I like the idea of splitting up the lefties. I think that's something that Dave Roberts has in mind. I'm old school, so I always want to see, like, your ace of the staff take the mound. Now, I know the Dodgers have literally five aces. So many aces.

So many aces. For me, though, like, the ace of the Dodgers is Yamamoto. And the respect that he earned for his 2025 World Series performance, for all due respect to Scoobo in his career, Yamamoto means a little more to the Los Angeles Dodgers than Scouble has because he's been here for like three weeks. So I would go Yamamoto scubel Snell, but I also understand wanting to split up the lefties. So we'll see,

I do wonder with the four starters, the most likely scenario, because the Dodgers have said that Otani is coming back. I'm more inclined to believe it because I've seen him throw a bullpen with my own eyes, that he will come out for the regular season finish strong. They're going to keep him as a two-way player, which means he's going to be an opener.

Can you imagine the Shohei opener for Tyler Glass now. I mean, you don't need that one, Diaz after that. So that's how I'm kind of looking at it. Show for three, Glass for four. You know, Reblesi's going to be somebody

that's in that bullpen and available as well. And he is, according to sources, this guy, nasty out of the bullpen. Things are going to be set up to borrow from Riz. It's going to be great. Very much looking forward to that. But we got a little bit more baseball.

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And before we head out of here, we do have some updates. We'll talk about Glass now in just a second, but let's talk nice about Max a little bit more behind his back, because that was fun. I'll say he was still loitering around when we were getting into the seatkeek. I think he wanted a little more time with us, but that just means, you know, what is it? You leave him wanting more. That's what we're doing there. They come back. Yeah.

But just awesome. Like great stuff there for Max. And one of the things I was thinking about asking him is like once, you know, another three or four titles hangs up the spikes and all of that. I mean, this is a dude that is just going to crush it in the booth, in media somehow. maybe with the boys, Hartung and everybody in S&LA, God, I hope he stays around and is in that

booth. I don't know if that's a question. It's just, again, more Muncie glaze. In case he happens to tune in after the fact, Max, don't go anywhere. We want you here, buddy. It's so funny, like, coming in and getting to know the personality is now at the club, and you learn so much from these players because of their experience, the coaches too, obviously.

But Max Muncie, really smart ballplayer, really gets the whole work ethic, the grind. Kike Hernandez also a really smart ballplayer. And, you know, the Kike Antex, antics, you're probably like, that guy? No, he really knows the way that he sees baseball and breaks things down. You have a room full of veterans, not just on the field, but behind the scenes in terms of how the industry works, how media works, how all of the business side of baseball that isn't glamorous.

And we like to just say, oh, you know, it's fine. It's whatever. It's part of the game. Like, to have these conversations with these guys and really, really see not just how such established athletes on the field that they're craft, but all the little things that go on behind the scenes, really good stuff to learn from. So I've certainly appreciated guys like Max taking their time.

Yeah, yeah, that's the thing. They're really good with that. And when they, when they do join these shows, obviously Max is always, he's a regular on foul territory. We appreciate him on the network. They give their all, you know,

in making sure they give us smart answers and all that kind of stuff. The final thing, it said Glassnow. We got a Tyler Glassnow update. It seems like everything's all honky, Dory. We're going to get Glass back. We should. Tyler Glassnow certainly looked good in Triple A at Sugarland. He threw five and a third, allowed a hit, was tagged for an earned run, though that was

charged to him after he left the game, walked about her, punched out nine. Clint retired, he retired 16 of 18 on 77 pitches, so he's crossed the threshold of the five innings mark, the 75 pitches mark. Dodgers want to see. Nothing official, nothing announced by the team yet, but looking at our little calendar ahead. Feels like Glassnow makes his return Tuesday on the road against the Braves. Slowly but surely, this playoff rotation is coming to fruition right before September like they planned all along. It is not lost on me, by the way, that Tyler Glassnow is most likely taking the spot of the recently put on the IL, Justin Robleski. Just total coincidence how that all

worked out. Say what you want about the Dodgers. They are smart as hell. Uh-huh. Yeah. His arm hurts real bad. Real bad. But if I'm Justin Rebleski, I'm coming out after this IL stint and, you know, most likely with all due respect to the season that he's had, the spot for him now is the bullpen. I'm coming out guns blazy. I'm like, all right, cool. I'm a bullpen guy. I'm going to be nasty. And we are going to talk a lot about, oh, Diaz. Who? No. Sasaki. Reblest. Robleski coming out makes you feel a little bit better. They do need to get Dias, right?

I mean, you spend $69 million on somebody, get them right? They did not spend $69 on D.S. They got a discount. No, it's with the deferrals and all of that. He's real cheap. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, the bullpen, for everybody that's worried about the bullpen right now, worried about the state of the rotation, things are coming together,

as they usually almost always do for the Dodgers. And hopefully, I didn't just curse us. But we appreciate you guys. Well, you have a deal at. Yeah, us. This guy right here, Alana Rizzo. Hopefully Rizzes enjoying her vacation. She'll also be out next week, so you'll get a lot more of us hanging out here and messing up the place.

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