MIAMI — Max Muncy is trying glasses to find the new perspective he’s looking for. The new, clear prescription spectacles that the Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman started wearing last Wednesday still take some getting used to. They fogged up in the wet, humid Atlanta nights last weekend. Trying them on at first felt “like I was in a fishbowl,” he said. His eyesight wasn’t even that bad — Muncy insists he has sterling 20/12 vision.
But while he was visiting the eye doctor to pick up his wife Kellie’s prescription of contacts a couple of weeks ago, the doctor suggested Muncy sit down for a checkup. The ensuing exam revealed that Muncy had astigmatism in his right eye, a curvature of the eye that can affect vision that made him disproportionately dominant in his left eye. It’s more pronounced when the left-handed hitting Muncy has been in the batter’s box, enduring the worst start to a season of his Dodgers career. So the doctor — the same one who diagnosed teammate Kiké Hernández last summer with astigmatism — suggested the glasses. Muncy didn’t see a downside in trying.
“Anything that could take a little bit of the pressure off my back eye when I’m hitting and maybe allow me to see just a little bit better, at this point, why not try it?” Muncy…
