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ESPN accidentally tipped the Dodgers pitches after picking up a mic’d up Kiké Hernández’s PitchCom

ESPN’s mics were just a bit too powerful here.

ESPN made a hilarious — and ultimately inconsequential — error during Sunday night’s broadcast of the Los Angeles Dodgers and St. Louis Cardinals game.

During ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball broadcasts, the network routinely mics up players to chat during the game — oftentimes to hilarious results. On Sunday, ESPN had Dodgers’ utility player Kiké Hernández on the mic when something strange started to come over the airwaves.

Alongside Hernández narrating the game, the ESPN mics picked up his PitchCom, the device that allows players to hear what pitches are being called by the catcher. Fans watching along to the broadcast got to hear “CHANGEUP” and “FASTBALL” in a robotic voice, a rare look at how the device works.

Oops! No harm no foul at the end of the day, as the Cardinals would have needed to have the game on in the dugout to hear the calls and relay them to players, but quite a goof by ESPN to accidentally tip the Dodgers pitches for a few minutes.

Why the Red Sox are giving away Kiké Hernández bobbleheads despite trading him to the Dodgers

The Red Sox are giving away Kiké Hernández bobbleheads, even though he got traded two weeks ago.

The Boston Red Sox are set to give away Kiké Hernández bobbleheads on Wednesday night, but there’s a catch.

Hernández got traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers two weeks ago, which makes this a very unusual bobblehead giveaway for Boston fans.

The Red Sox reportedly still wanted to keep the World Baseball Classic-inspired Hernández bobblehead giveaway on the schedule even though he got traded to the Dodgers. The reasoning behind it is actually pretty cool.

MassLive spoke to Red Sox chief marketing officer Adam Grossman to learn more about the Hernández bobblehead decision, partly involving a WBC-based fan vote that named Hernández one of the Boston bobblehead picks.

It also had to do with giving Red Sox fans the chance to own a collector’s bobblehead.

Chiefly, Grossman explained, the Red Sox thought the right thing to do was to go ahead with the giveaway as scheduled in an effort to not deprive fans of a collector’s item. The one caveat? Making sure Hernández, who now plays thousands of miles away after a rocky final season in Boston, gave the promotion his blessing.

“We touched base with him after he was traded to tell him we’ve got this coming up,” Grossman said. “We were inclined to give it away and continue to go through with it as long as he was comfortable with it. He was comfortable.

“For his time here, he had a close relationship with fans. I think fans felt similarly. So we felt like, for all those reasons, why not give it out to the fans?”

Hernández also left a really cool message for Red Sox fans on the bobblehead box, thanking them for their support.

 

While Red Sox fans might not get to cheer Hernández on the field, they’ll get to commemorate his time with the team with a really cool memento.

The Red Sox’s Kiké Hernandez had a delightfully NSFW reaction to hitting his 100th home run

Well said!

Red Sox infielder Kiké Hernandez has spent 10 seasons in the big leagues, and power has rarely been considered a huge component of his game. That being said, out of the 20,000-plus players who have appeared in a Major League game, only 976 of them have hit 100 career home runs.

It’s not a Cooperstown-worthy accomplishment, but it’s a cool milestone nonetheless. And Hernandez seemed a bit surprised to learn that he was now a part of that 100 Home Run Club this week.

During Wednesday’s game against the Minnesota Twins, Hernandez cut into a lopsided game with a solo home run over the Green Monster.

But check out the reaction once he made his way through the Red Sox dugout. He was quite excited to learn that he hit his 100th home run. (Warning: NSFW language in the tweet and video)

So great. That’s the moment of levity that a 10-4 loss — and a tough start to the season for Hernandez — needed. Let’s hope he tracked down that baseball as well.

Kiké Hernandez was asked about his most embarrassing MLB story and he absolutely should’ve kept it to himself

“What I’m saying is I [expletive] my pants. During a game. In the playoffs.” Well, alright then, Kiké.

Not only is Kiké Hernandez a fantastic baseball player, but he’s also absolutely awesome on the mic, man. He’s just always got a joke or two with him that’ll have you on the floor.

But, man. The hilarious story he shared with the Red Sox is probably one he should’ve kept to himself.

So Boston’s social media team had the brilliant idea of asking players what their most embarrassing MLB story is so far in their career. And, honestly, that’s a great idea.

Obviously, you’ll get laughs out of it. But fans will also get to know their players better on a personal level, which is always good.

So the team got to Hernandez. And, of course, you’re probably expecting a hilarious fielding story. Or maybe something funny happened in the dugout. Absolutely no one expected the story to go in the direction it did.

The morale of it is this: Don’t fart when you have Diarrhea. Take a listen if you dare.

“2020 playoffs, I had a tooth infection so I was taking some antibitiics for my infection and one of the side effects was Diarrhea. And we got a big out during a big situation during the NLDS, and I screamed F Yeah. I was DH’ing and I thought I farted. I went out to lead off the inning, struck out in 3 pitches. When I went in the dugout I immediately went to the bathroom, pulled my pants down, completely sharted.”

When he was asked to clarify if he was saying he misjudged a fart, he had a very matter-of-fact answer.

“Uh, no. What I’m saying is I [expletive] my pants. During a game. In the playoffs.” 

Well, alright then, Kiké. We’re sorry you asked, too, Red Sox. Hernandez is a better person than most of us, though. Because let me tell you. If this was my story? Ain’t no way anybody would ever find out about this. I might have even found a way to erase it from my memory.

Regardless, it’s out there for Hernandez now. The internet, being the agent of chaos that it is, actually went and found the at-bat, too. It was as bad as you think.

Maybe it’s because we know the vibes now, but you can kind of tell things are a bit weird for Kiké here just looking at the way he’s walking. It’s hilarious.

Fans had so much fun with this.

This awesome in-game mic’d-up moment with Kiké Hernandez is exactly what baseball needs

This is so good.

The best new trend in Major League Baseball this year is players getting mic’d up for regular-season games, taking what’s been done in spring training and bringing it into real contests.

That’s right, players are having chats with the booth in real time — see Joey Votto and Ozzie Albies last week — and on Sunday night, we had a thrilling moment go down.

Boston Red Sox do-it-all player Kiké Hernandez was on the mic for Sunday Night Baseball, and with Anthony Rizzo at the plate for the New York Yankees, he went over out loud what his strategy was with men on second and third. He wanted to prevent Rizzo from going to second.

Then? The ball came his way (“Here it is!”):

How awesome is that? How good is that for the game? Right?! I love it. Some more mic’d up goodness:

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Boston’s Kiké Hernández is the hottest hitter in the country

No one is hotter at the plate than Hernández right now.

There isn’t a single player in the MLB postseason that is hotter than Boston’s Kiké Hernández right now. Throughout Boston’s seven combined postseason games against the Yankees, Rays, and now Astros, Hernández is hitting a blistering 16-for-32. He has more home runs (5) than strike outs (4), and the outfielder is matching records that only Reggie Jackson has accomplished.

Boston manager Alex Cora has said Hernández is ‘en fuego,’ and teammate Alex Verdugo has started calling him Kiké “The Babe” Hernández. Normally, you’d think those would be overreactions, but the guy may as well be taking a flaming bat to the batter’s box. Hernández has had two games with four or more hits, going 5-for-6 against the Rays in Game 2 of the ALDS and 4-for-5 in Boston’s Game 1 loss to the Astros.

In what one could deem a quiet game for the 30-year-old in his eighth year in the MLB, Hernández delivered the walk-off sacrifice fly to knock AL East champion Tampa Bay out of the postseason. He’s been seeing the ball well, and his numbers reflect that.

Against Houston in Game 1 of the ALCS, we got a rare opportunity to hear the unfiltered thoughts of Houston Manager Dusty Baker as his team dealt with the first of many Hernández home runs to come. During a live interview with Joe Buck and John Smoltz in the top of the third inning, Hernández launched a no-doubter to left center off of Framber Valdez.

Baker was succinct, dropping an, “Oh, lord.” as the bat made contact with the ball.

It was one of two home runs for Hernández in the game, but the Astros’ own hot hitting from Jose Altuve and Carlos Correa gave Houston the win. The Red Sox evened things up in Game 2 behind grand slams from JD Martinez and Rafael Devers (and another home run from Hernández).

Boston picked up Hernández from the Los Angeles Dodgers as a free agent back in February, and it has worked out beautifully for both parties. He played in 134 games in the regular season, hitting 20 home runs and had a totally fine .250 batting average. His postseason performance has bolstered a Red Sox team that has gone from “we’re just happy to be here” to “hey we might be able to win this thing.”

According to Tipico Sportsbook, the Red Sox have the longest odds to win the World Series at +380, but with Hernández hitting the way he is, it seems silly to count them out. You can get +1150 odds on Hernández hitting over 3.5 hits tonight in Game 3, a line that moved from +1900 since 11am ET.

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Kiké Hernández had the sweetest message for Red Sox fans right after his series-winning RBI

“Thank you, fans. Thank for yelling my name.”

The Boston Red Sox are on to the ALCS after beating the Tampa Bay Rays in another thriller of a game that ended in a walk-off win for the home team at Fenway Park last night.

Kiké Hernández, who has been red hot in the playoffs this year, provided the heroics this time with a sacrifice fly to left field that scored the winning run in the bottom of the ninth inning.

It’s Hernández’s first year with the Red Sox and he has already become a fan favorite in Boston. After his game-winning RBI he thanked the fans for chanting his name during his memorable at-bat, saying:

“Thank you, fans. Thank for yelling my name. That made my confidence go up a few levels, so thank you for that.”

This whole interview was great:

So good.

Hernández also had a great reaction to his sac fly:

Fans loved it: