“Hopefully we solely must play 3 extra.”
Los Angeles Dodgers utility star Kiké Hernández has an identical mindset to what presumably many followers are feeling after Recreation 2 of the World Sequence.
Whether or not the message that the brand new Dodgers all-time chief in postseason appearances despatched to the Blue Jays was dealing extra with holding the foot on the gasoline after his crew evened the sequence, and fewer about taking a shot at Toronto, Hernández was clear about the place he needs to clinch the primary back-to-back title in quarter-century, no much less.
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Even when Hernández was requested about taking part in in a recreation that made him the Dodgers’ chief in postseason appearances, he began off his response reminding the world about what’s most necessary to him at this second.
“Proper now, it means to me that we’re three video games away from successful a World Sequence,” Hernández mentioned, eliciting amusing from SportsNet LA’s Kirsten Watson. “It’s a very particular accomplishment. Clearly there’s been a number of actually huge names, a number of historical past on this franchise, a number of postseason video games performed on this crew, and for a man like me to have essentially the most video games performed, unbelievable.
“I don’t even know learn how to reply that query, however I suppose I’m proud that I’ve lasted this lengthy to have the ability to get this chance. Hopefully we solely must play 3 extra.”
To this point this postseason, in traditional Hernández vogue, the utility star has stepped up.
In the course of the common season, Hernández hit .203 with a .621 OPS. Throughout his 12 postseason appearances, Hernández is hitting .273 with a .697 OPS.
The subsequent three video games of the World Sequence will all be at Dodger Stadium. The Dodgers have solely clinched one World Sequence at residence (1963) and would have been capable of in 2020, however the Fall Basic was held at a impartial website.
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