LOS ANGELES — Max Muncy has had his fill of watching baseball.

“I’m beyond ready (to get back on the field),” he said this week. “It is just frustrating.”

The Dodgers third baseman suffered a bone bruise in his left knee on July 2, missed a month and then went down with another injury – a strained oblique muscle – after returning for just eight games.

“That was a devastating blow to me mentally,” Muncy said. “It’s a real gut punch. It’s almost one where you have to come back mentally as much as physically and that’s what I’m trying to stay on top of.”

The oblique injury was “similar” to the injury that sidelined Muncy for three months last season. That involved a displaced rib which was not initially diagnosed. In this case, that was part of the exams Muncy underwent after feeling the

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