The Latest Breaking News from Max Muncy

Intentional walk backfires, Dodgers rally from four-run deficit for 11-9 win, take series and drop White Sox to 26-29.

There are head-scratching decisions, and then there’s whatever Tony La Russa was thinking with this one.

After finding so many ways to win ballgames over his career, Tony La Russa is now inventing new ways to lose them.

LOS ANGELES — Earlier in the week, Walker Buehler chucked his glove in anger when he reached the dugout.

PHOENIX — The game was so out of hand by the eighth inning, relief pitcher Evan Phillips had a plate appearance … and drew a walk.

PHILADELPHIA — doPhillies starter Zach Eflin watched along on the clubhouse TV as Alec Bohm stepped up to the plate in the bottom of the tenth inning. His team was trailing the Dodgers 3-2, with two outs, a runner on second, and the game on the line. Since the eighth…

The crescendo rose, the familiar wall of noise building amid the nighttime horde, fans in the outfield bleachers at Dodger Stadium standing and waiting with open arms.

LOS ANGELES — Hey, Max Muncy, what have you done lately?

PITTSBURGH — Daniel Vogelbach finished his swing, dropped his bat and stared toward the Clemente Wall in right field. The Pirates’ designated hitter found a low-and-inside fastball, and he did what many left-handed hitters do with pitches there — pulverized it. No question Vogelbach knew it was gone.

PITTSBURGH — On Monday, the Pirates played one of their best games of the young season, pitching a gem in a 5-1 win over the perennial powerhouse Los Angeles Dodgers.

LOS ANGELES — Off the crack of the bat, almost everyone on the field Tuesday night thought the ball was gone.