Muncy: Media doubting Dodgers 'was starting to really piss us off'

Max Muncy didn't appreciate his Los Angeles Dodgers being considered underdogs by media pundits in the NLDS against the San Diego Padres.

"It was starting to get frustrating. It was starting to really piss us off," Muncy said on "Foul Territory" when asked about his triumphant, skeptic-bashing outburst after the Dodgers won Game 5.

"(That we were going to lose) is all we were hearing on the TV. We really weren't paying attention to it, but when it gets shoved in your face so many times, you start getting pissed off."

As the Dodgers celebrated in their locker room Friday night, Muncy had words for their doubters.

"What was it, 80% of the f-----g experts said we were going to lose?" he said, according to Alden Gonzalez of ESPN. "F--- those guys. We know who we are. We're the f-----g best team in baseball, and we're out there to prove it."

L.A. did, however, give the media fuel by going down 2-1 in the best-of-five divisional series before rallying to advance to the NLCS.

Many touted the Padres as the more complete team entering the series, even though they didn't win the NL West.

Muncy did his part by homering in the Dodgers' Game 4 win, helping shift the momentum ahead of the deciding game.

The 34-year-old slugger's 12 postseason home runs rank third on the Dodgers' all-time playoff leaderboard.

Los Angeles enters Wednesday night's NLCS Game 3 in a 1-1 series tie with the surprising New York Mets.