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Muncy missed 25 games with a bone bruise in his left knee earlier in the summer and returns with the Dodgers stumbling through an offensive slump that saw them lose five of six games to the last-place Pittsburgh Pirates and Baltimore Orioles.

Treinen, in particular, was one of the bigger uncertainties, after missing two weeks in August with a hip injury that also doubled as a reset amid a midseason slump.

They drop a second straight game to the Pittsburgh Pirates to suffer their fourth defeat in the last five games and are unable to take advantage of the San Diego Padres’ own slump.

The halt in production is a fresh blow to the firm which recently revealed a slump in profits attributed to an increase in costs caused by US tariffs.

The campaign had been intended to be a "reset" for the company, a long-time staple of teen fashion that entered the year in a sales slump, chief marketing officer Craig Brommers told financial analysts on Wednesday.