LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles Dodgers infielder Max Muncy was named to the 2019 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, which will take place on July 9 at Progressive Field in Cleveland, OH. The infielder is replacing Washington Nationals Anthony Rendon and will join teammates Cody Bellinger, Walker Buehler, Clayton Kershaw and Hyun-Jin Ryu at the 90th MLB mid-summer classic. 

Muncy, 28, will make his first trip to the All-Star Game after competing in the 2018 T-Mobile Home Run derby. The infielder is slashing .276/.379/.921 with 21 homers and 59 RBI this season. Since May 1, he is batting .290 (58-for-200) with 16 homers and 42 RBI. The former Baylor Bear is among the National League leaders in homers (10th), RBI (13th), OBP (14th, .379) and OPS (14th, .921). On the road, he boasts the seventh-best OPS in all of baseball (.995) and has amassed 14 homers and 36 RBI away from Dodger Stadium.

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Los Angeles will have the five representatives at the game, the most in the NL and second to the Houston Astros who will have six players at the game.