Kiké Hernández Error During Mic’d Up Dodgers-Yankees Interview Led to Awkward Silence

Mic’d up interviews with MLB players in the discipline are a resourceful way to get followers closer to the recreation. Sad to say, they can also go horribly erroneous.

That is what took place to Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman Enrique Kiké Hernández on a mic’d up job interview live on the AppleTV+ broadcast all through his club’s 2-1 gain in excess of the New York Yankees on Friday evening.

Hernández, sporting an earpiece and a microphone, was questioned a dilemma about the Dodgers’ powerful group chemistry by AppleTV+ colour commentator and previous MLB pitcher Dontrelle Willis in the course of the bottom of the 2nd inning with a single out and the rely 1-and-2 on Yankees 2nd baseman Gleyber Torres.

“Immediately after this play,” Hernández stated, as he ranged to his proper to industry a grounder from Torres. The Dodgers veteran then unsuccessful to cleanly discipline the ball, resulting in the Yankees 2nd baseman achieving very first safely—and an amazingly awkward silence from the AppleTV+ broadcast.

Times later on, after Hernández asked Willis to repeat his query, the former MLB hurler replied by indicating, “I don’t want to ask it again. Because I don’t want you to boot the ball again, to be trustworthy with you. I’ll get that E for you, major pet.”

The good news is for the Dodgers, Hernández’ mistake was not a pricey 1, as setting up pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto sandwiched a few of strikeouts all-around yet another foundation hit to work himself out of the jam.

Hernández, for each MLB’s collective bargaining agreement, pocketed $10,000 for the in-recreation job interview.

That’s why the Dodgers star, even after enduring this awkward expertise, would not program on rejecting such prospects in the long term.

“No, mainly because we are getting compensated,” Hernández explained, in accordance to the Involved Push. “I like money.”

The Dodgers (40-25) and Yankees (45-20) will engage in two much more game titles at Yankee Stadium this weekend, setting up with Saturday’s 7:35 p.m. ET video game.