Pregame Max Muncy on birth of Daughter 7/27/21

Max, you've just gotten back from paternity leave and you welcomed your new baby girl Sophie Kate. What was it like being there for the birth of your daughter? It was incredible. It was an experience unlike any other. I feel like I've had a lot of really good experiences in baseball and this one definitely topped all of them. It was special to be able to be there and I really enjoyed it. It was hard leaving but at the same time I'm glad to be back with the boys. It's fun to be out here. It'll be a big series. Hopefully I can help them out, win a couple games and we get to go back to Arizona real soon. So it'll be hopefully a nice treat. How were your first few days of being a father? What were those like? Trying to figure things out. They can't really prepare you. They can give you advice but you can't really get prepared for it. So I was just trying to figure out what to do. Trying to make sure that Kelly was doing good and just really trying to take care of everybody. Did you get any sleep? Not really but that's alright. It's more than worth it to me. Now you're back with all of your teammates here in San Francisco against the Giants. What are you looking forward to most in this matchup tonight? It'll just be a fun game. We've got to go out and take care of business. We've got to play our game. We are playing the Giants but for us to do well we can't worry about who we're playing. We need to go out there and do things the way we know how to do them. If we're able to do that it's not going to matter who's out there. With obviously some of the injuries that have been going on with the team, whether it's Mookie Betts, we saw Cody Bellinger, he's back in the lineup today of course. But how have you seen the younger guys really step up when this team needed them the most? Yeah, they've done really good. That's something this organization has always had. Guys are going to go down, it's a long season, it's inevitable. There's no way to prevent people from getting hurt like that. We always have a really good job of having young guys come up and fill in and just putting us in a better position to win games. That way when guys do come back healthy, everything's flowing like it should. I know they're happy to have you back after being gone but what have you seen from Chris Taylor? How valuable is he to this team? He's been unbelievable for us. He finally got some recognition being an all-star. He's been playing like that for a couple years for us. He allows us to be the Dodgers. He allows us to go out there and do certain things that without him we wouldn't be able to do. He's kind of the glue to this team. He's been really special this year, and I'm looking forward to seeing him do it for the rest of the year. And obviously when you're back out here, we obviously know you can hit the ball very far and into the water sometimes. What are you going to do tonight against this team? Just try to stay within myself. Let the situation dictate what needs to be done and just do something to try and help the team win. Just try to throw one thing in the bucket, whether it's a walk or a hit or moving a runner over, just try to do something to help the team win. Thank you, Max, and welcome back. Thank you, appreciate it.