Max Muncy did not want a repeat of what happened in 2017.
Legendary Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher turned broadcaster Orel Hershiser almost made history repeat itself Friday night as the Houston Astros took on the Los Angeles Dodgers in a rematch of the 2017 World Series.
Of course, we are all aware of the Astros cheating scandal that came about during that World Series, which they won, and in the coming years as well.
However, nearly a decade after the original actions, Hershiser made a comment in the press box during the Astros 18-1 slaughtering of the Boys in Blue Friday night that the Astros hitters were "swinging at these breaking balls like they knew what was coming," a clear mention to the scandal.
However, Dodgers third baseman Max Muncy cleared things up on the matter Tuesday, and actually thought the opposite, that Dodgers rookie pitcher Ben Casparius may have actually been tipping his pitches to the hitters, allowing them to know what was coming up.
"Do I think they knew it was coming? Yes, I do. Do I think they were cheating to get there? No, I think that they had a tip on the pitcher and that's on us to clean that up," Muncy said on the Foul Territory podcast with Erik Kratz and A.J. Pierzynski. "That's not cheating, that's part of the game. Good teams are going to do that."
Muncy, who was in the Dodgers' Triple-A team in the infamous year that they faced Houston in the World Series, even credited his own team with the ability to read signs from pitchers.
"It's one of those things where you just always have to careful about what you're doing out there, you don't want to give away anything to the other team. That's something we've taken advantage of a lot of times. You have to find a way to clean that up. It's not cheating, it's just a part of the game."
Unfortunately for Muncy and the Dodgers, he was recently sidelined with a bone bruise in his knee after colliding with a runner earlier in the month, sidelining him for at least the next month and a half, and the Dodgers would go on to get swept in the three-game series that they hosted the 2017 and 2022 World Series champions.
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