Everybody’s favourite Dodger clubhouse teammate is bringing extra than simply his dance strikes again to Chavez Ravine.
In Tuesday night time’s win in opposition to the Oakland Athletics, utilityman Kiké Hernández had a particular efficiency on either side of the ball and caught up with Sportsnet LA subject reporter Kirsten Watson to debate his emotional return residence.
After two full seasons away from the franchise with the Boston Crimson Sox, Hernández was introduced again to the Dodgers by GM Andrew Friedman to give the crew some defensive depth and one other right-handed bat to their hopeful postseason lineup.
Hernández has had his justifiable share of memorable moments with the franchise together with a three-homer recreation again within the 2017 NLCS to down the Cubs en path to the franchise’s first Fall Traditional since 1988.
The Puerto Rican utilityman introduced some extra postseason aptitude in current seasons after a game-tying home-run within the sixth inning of the seventh and ultimate recreation of the NLCS in 2020 that led to a Dodger championship.
He continued his postseason heroics for the Boston Crimson Sox in 2021 after mashing his solution to a shock ALCS look in opposition to the Houston Astros.
Throughout two sequence, a five-game torrid stretch netted him 34 whole bases, a brand new MLB document.
This season with the Crimson Sox hadn’t been going the way in which Hernández needed, but it surely appears like a change of surroundings is doing the trick to get his groove again.
Hernández finsished Tuesday’s recreation with a bases-clearing double within the fourth inning and a formidable catch in foul floor within the sixth inning displaying Dodgers followers a glimpse of his significance to the crew.
In what proved to be each Hernández’s and new starter acquisition Lance Lynn’s large nights, the previous is proving the previous saying proper: There really isn’t any place like residence.
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