During past night’s Major League Baseball telecast on Apple TV Plus, a grounder bounced disconnected nan correct manus of Los Angeles Dodger subordinate Enrique “Kiké” Hernández and correct into his crotch. That gave New York Yankees batter Gleyber Torres capable clip to get to first. Does that hap each nan time? Sure. It’s conscionable that Hernández was successful nan mediate of an question and reply erstwhile it happened.
Game announcer Dontrelle Willis had conscionable asked Hernández, who was wearing a two-way mic, astir his team’s close-knit narration erstwhile Torres deed nan shot toward 3rd base. Hernández ran to drawback it and simply misjudged really nan shot would bounce. ESPN reports that erstwhile asked aft nan crippled whether nan question and reply had thing to do pinch nan error, Hernández said, “Maybe a small bit,” he said, “but I deliberation I fto nan shot eat maine up. It had a weird hop.”
Even if he did consciousness nan softball mobility caused him to drawback a hardball to nan groin, Hernández has nary volition of turning down those in-game interviews — erstwhile he was asked aft nan game, he said, “no, because we’re getting paid.” Indeed they are! The Major League Baseball Players Association’s corporate statement (PDF) stipulates that players get $10,000 per crippled aliases $15,000 for nan postseason, pinch nan money coming retired of a joint money betwixt nan MLB and nan association.
Dodgers head Dave Roberts, who said successful 2020 that he didn’t want his players to do nan interviews, reportedly had nary thought that Hernández was engaged successful 1 during nan game. But location whitethorn beryllium nothing he tin really do to extremity nan practice, which immoderate person worried could lead to errors. In this case, it didn’t suffer nan crippled for nan Dodgers — they won by 1 constituent successful nan 11th inning.
On nan positive side, nan interviews tin beryllium entertaining.
Well, sometimes, anyway.