Although Friday was the first Shohei Ohtani bobblehead day at Dodger Stadium, it was Max Muncy who stole the night. 

Muncy entered this game with 210 career home runs, repping Dodger blue, and was just a home run shy of tying Steve Garvey with the third most in the Los Angeles Dodgers all-time list. 

It looked as though Muncy knew where he ranked, as he launched three home runs in the Dodgers' series-opening win against the Texas Rangers by an 8-7 final. 

"It's just special anytime you hit a home run in a big league game, let alone three," Muncy said about his performance. 

"It's the second time I've done that, and I still think about the first time I did it, so it's just a special night and to get the win on top of it... great." 

This marks the second time that Muncy has had a three-home run game. 

With the win, the Dodgers become the first team in baseball to record 10 wins. 

Heading into this series opener, Muncy was 0-7 at the plate, but that goose egg would be erased in the second inning with his first home run of the game. 

Muncy told Dodgers manager Dave Roberts that, despite being hitless for the last two games in Toronto, he was "close" to breaking out. 

"He's off to a hot start," Roberts added in the postgame. 

That longball would give the Dodgers the lead early, but a three-run home run by Dodgers alumni Corey Seager in the following inning gave Texas its first lead of the game. 

Tyler Glasnow was the one who gave up the longball to Seager and was pitching in his third outing of the year. 

In his previous two outings, he recorded at least six innings. He would do the same on Friday night, but the Rangers would tack on four runs.

All in all, Glasnow recorded a final line score of six innings, allowing four earned runs on a pair of home runs and striking out seven.

"Not good game management on my part," Glasnow said in the postgame, reviewing his performance. "I felt good, though."

Muncy would inch Los Angeles closer with another solo shot in the bottom of the fourth. That home run marked his 212th and stands alone in third place all-time and sixth in franchise history for home runs. 

Roberts made note of Muncy's second home, as he called it a "short and compact swing" that carried over the left field wall. 

That's a testament to what the Dodgers have been trying to get out of Muncy, and it seems as though he is also buying into his new approach at the plate. 

It's customary that when it's Ohtani's bobblehead night, he does something memorable. It would be no different, as the base hit he knocked in the fifth would extend his on-base streak to 44 consecutive games. 

That puts him at the top of Ichiro Suzuki for the most by a Japanese-born player. 

Andy Pages continued his hot hitting at the plate in the most clutch moments, starting with his two-run RBI double he hit in the sixth to put the Dodgers ahead, 5-4.

Fast forward to the eighth, and Pages would come up to bat with Muncy on first after a lead-off single. Pages launched Luis Curvelo's 0-1 sinker at the knees for a two-run shot. 

That home run marked his fourth home run of the season and brought his OPS to 1.257. 

Though the celebration would be put to a halt as the Rangers put up a three-spot, ignited by an Evan Carter two-run shot and Ezequiel Duran RBI single to tie the game, 7-7, in the ninth. 

Edwin Díaz was the man on the mound for Los Angeles, and that would mark his first blown save in his short Dodgers tenure. 

With two outs in the bottom of the ninth, the man of the hour came up to bat. 

On a 0-2 count, he caught Jacob Latz's breaking ball at the letters and sent it flying for his third home run of the game, ending a wild start to the Dodgers' second home stand. 

"For us to come out and find a way to win speaks a lot to our team's offense, and it was a team contribution from essentially everyone," Roberts said. 

Heading into the offseason, Muncy made a ton of changes in not only his mechanics at the plate, but also honed in on his diet. 

He came into camp 17 pounds lighter and attributed it to cutting bread out of his diet. 

"I really cut back on the bread," Muncy said. "That's a hard thing in our family. We really love bread, so we really tried to cut back on that, and that was the hardest thing for me, I think." 

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