{"id":638580,"date":"2026-05-12T13:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/638580\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T13:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:19:10","slug":"dodgers-notes-max-muncy-shohei-ohtani-rene-cardenas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/638580\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers notes: Max Muncy, Shohei Ohtani, Ren\u00e9 C\u00e1rdenas"},"content":{"rendered":"

A busy Monday saw the Dodgers get Mookie Betts back from the injured list<\/a> after missing five weeks, Alex Freeland<\/a> got sent down to Triple-A Oklahoma City<\/a>, and the offense continued to scuffle in a blowout loss<\/a> to the San Francisco Giants.<\/p>\n

While we wait to see which day Shohei Ohtani will get a day off from hitting this week<\/a>, here are some other stories of note for your Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n

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Max Muncy shares a birthday with the A\u2019s Max Muncy, both were drafted by the A\u2019s, and both are playing third base. As David Adler at MLB.com noted, both Maxes Muncy are also among the MLB leaders this year in hard-hit rate<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Monday the Dodgers\u2019 Muncy added two more hard-hit balls with a home run 104.1 mph off the bat and a 102.2-mph single.<\/p>\n

Atlanta Braves<\/a> right fielder Eli White<\/a> robbed the Dodgers\u2019 Muncy of likely a three-run double with an incredible catch at the right field wall on Sunday at Dodger Stadium<\/a>. But in doing so White crashed head first into said wall, and on Monday was placed on the concussion injured list. The folks at Battery Power have more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Eno Sarris and Fabian Ardaya at The Athletic wrote about the rarity of left-handed pitchers throwing split-fingered fastballs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Longtime Dodgers Spanish-language broadcaster Ren\u00e9 C\u00e1rdenas died on Sunday at age 96<\/a>. Here\u2019s more on C\u00e1rdenas from Ed Guzman of the Los Angeles Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was indisputably one of the pioneers of Spanish-language baseball radio broadcasting, and he opened the door for other broadcasters to reach the major leagues,\u201d Jarr\u00edn told The Times in Spanish on Monday morning. \u201cHe was a total professional, truly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A busy Monday saw the Dodgers get Mookie Betts back from the injured list after missing five weeks,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[36410,2111,2356,22360,36899,3031,2323,3963,275727,363,4286,2329,3956,99,24],"class_list":["post-638580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-alex-freeland","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-california","tag-dodger-stadium","tag-eli-white","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-max-muncy","tag-maxes-muncy","tag-mlb","tag-mookie-betts","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-sports","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}