Dodgers-Phillies turn into a two-night home run brawl

The Dodgers and Phillies have played two games in the last two nights and somehow both of them turned into the same story: Max Muncy going deep, and Philadelphia finding a way to make it worse for themselves. Game 1 was a taut 2-1 affair. Game 2 turned into a 9-5 laugher. The common thread both times was No. 13 in Dodger blue.

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Max Muncy DEAD CENTRAL

That homer off Zack Wheeler held up. Muncy launched it to straightaway center and the Dodgers never trailed again in that game, but the finish was somehow the bigger story. With Philadelphia threatening late, the Phillies ran themselves right out of the ballgame instead of tying it.

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The kind of Double Play only the Dodgers can get to win a game

J.T. Realmuto was the runner tagged out to end it, caught trying to scramble back to second after the Phillies had put men in scoring position with a chance to walk it off themselves. Instead the Dodgers turned two and celebrated a 2-1 win born entirely out of a Philadelphia baserunning meltdown. Barstool's baseball account was not shy about pointing out only the Phillies could find a way to lose like that, and the mockery only got louder the next night.

Because Philadelphia came right back out the following game and did it again, just with more fireworks. Alec Bohm jumped on a Eric Lauer changeup for a two-out, two-run shot in the first inning to stake the Phillies to an early lead, his 13th of the year.

That lead didn't last. Muncy erased it with a go-ahead two-run homer off Aaron Nola in the sixth, the kind of swing that's become a nightly occurrence against this Phillies team. It reportedly moved him into 5th on the Dodgers' all-time home run list, which is a wild thing to be doing to one specific division rival two nights running.

The Dodgers ultimately blew that one open with a Tommy Edman bases-clearing triple later on, turning a tight game into a 9-5 rout. Two nights, two Muncy homers, one Bohm bomb, and a Phillies team that's now given Los Angeles the same result twice: a lead they built themselves handed right back. If this is the tone for the rest of the series, Philadelphia has bigger problems than just Max Muncy's bat.