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!”):
"Fast guy at third. Slow guy at second. If he gets a base hit to me I'm gonna throw him out at home maybe"
Didn't go the way Kiké Hernandez wanted it to but this was an awesome mic'd up moment pic.twitter.com/fsWaxLZg36
— Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) April 11, 2022
How awesome is that? How good is that for the game? Right?! I love it. Some more mic’d up goodness:
Kike wasn’t having any fun pic.twitter.com/oVRPTHKPph
— Steve Brudzynski (@_BigSteve89) April 11, 2022
Kiké: “I go the other way by accident.”🤔 pic.twitter.com/fCqlLcLl2W
— Fred Landers (@fredlanders101) April 11, 2022
We can all agree we need MORE of this 🔊🔊 pic.twitter.com/lzNNx67R6L
— Cut4 (@Cut4) April 11, 2022
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