​This season presents the Los Angeles Dodgers with a chance to accomplish something unseen since the dawn of the new millennium. After becoming back-to-back World Series champions, the Dodgers could become the first team to three-peat since the 1998-2000 New York Yankees. Following a dramatic Fall Classic victory over the Toronto Blue Jays in 2025, Los Angeles further strengthened its roster for 2026 by adding Kyle Tucker and Edwin Diaz. Now standing at 60-33, the Dodgers hold the best record in baseball and are the first of the 30 teams to reach the 60-win milestone. Yet there is still a substantial portion of the regular season ahead, and many tough opponents will be chasing titles of their own come October.
In a recent episode of On Base, Dodgers stars Mookie Betts and Max Muncy discussed what it will take to engrave their names in the record books alongside the Yankees and the Athletics as the third franchise in Major League Baseball history to win the World Series in three consecutive seasons. “Man, we just keep doing the same thing we’ve been doing,” Muncy explained. “We show up every single day. We don’t let anything carry over from previous days, except for on the bus—everything’s fair game on the bus.” But when it comes to the game itself, he elaborated, “We don’t let anything carry over from the day before, whether you’ve had three home runs, three strikeouts, 10 punch outs, no punch outs. If you made three errors or you made three diving plays, that doesn’t matter for the next game.”
Taking each game as it comes and maintaining a short memory has served the Dodgers well, especially when confronted with slumps, injuries, or other challenges. “Nothing carries over to the next day,” Muncy noted. “You show up, you do your routine, you work, you’re 0-for-0. You have to go out there and play that game. We focus on what we’re doing today to win this game. We don’t know who we’ll face tomorrow, and we don’t care until it’s tomorrow. Then we face that guy.” With that mindset, every day becomes a new opportunity, and that attitude has helped them push through the ups and downs of a long season. “If you bring that approach every day,” he added, “that’s what’s helped us get over the hump in recent years, and we’ve just got to keep doing it.”
Muncy, at 35, is a veteran presence on the roster, while Betts, at 33, shares a similar position. Both have been integral to the three World Series titles the organization has secured in this decade. Betts emphasized a shared focus on the present rather than the prospect of a repeat. “I think the energy is, we don’t even think about the repeat or any of that,” Betts said. “We’re just staying in the moment.” As the Dodgers navigate the remainder of the season, the core belief remains: take it day by day, keep the routine sharp, and let the future unfold one game at a time.