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“But I just don’t want to count Max out.” “Right now, it certainly doesn’t look great,” Roberts said.

He did say it is “very unlikely” Muncy will be available for Wednesday’s wild-card game and admitted it is “unlikely” he would be back in time for an NLDS. But right now from what I hear, the tests – X-rays and other scans – it’s still unclear.” Roberts said the injury is “deeper than the soft tissue. “Right now, there was some testing but it’s still sort of unclear what it means really,” Roberts said. The preliminary diagnosis was a left elbow injury and Roberts was unable to add more to that following Sunday’s game. However far they proceed from here, the Dodgers will likely have to do it without one of their core players in the lineup.įirst baseman Max Muncy left Sunday’s game in the third inning after Brewers baserunner Jace Peterson crashed into his left arm on a play at first base.

MAX MUNCY INJURY UPDATE SERIES

Louis Cardinals in a one-game wild-card playoff on Wednesday with the winner advancing to play the NL West champion Giants in a best-of-five NL Division series that will begin Friday in San Francisco. The Dodgers’ run of eight consecutive division titles ends as the third-longest in the division era (starting in 1969) behind the Atlanta Braves’ 14 from 1991 through 2005 and the New York Yankees’ nine from 1998 through 2006.

The Dodgers can make the bittersweet boast of having won the most games of any second-place team in MLB history (previously 104 by the 1909 Chicago Cubs and 1942 Brooklyn Dodgers). Instead, the most elevated division race in baseball history concludes with the Giants exceeding all projections (outside Farhan Zaidi’s laptop) with a best-in-baseball 107 wins and the Dodgers matching their franchise record with 106.īaseball has never had two teams in the same division win so many games. On the 70th anniversary of Bobby Thomson’s “Shot Heard Round the World,” these Dodgers and Giants could create no such drama. While the Dodgers were routing the packed-for-the-playoffs Milwaukee Brewers 10-3, the Padres (4-22 over their last 26 games) rolled over one last time, allowing the San Francisco Giants to clinch the NL West division title with an 11-4 victory at home Sunday afternoon. LOS ANGELES - Remember back in spring training when some predicted the San Diego Padres would put an end to the Dodgers’ streak of division titles?