Commentary: 'I try to put it in the trash.' How Teoscar Hernandez's mindset delivered October magic
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Commentary: 'I try to put it in the trash.' How Teoscar Hernandez's mindset delivered October magic
"Teoscar Hernández does not lack for emotion. He plays with joy, with exuberance, with delight. The Dodgers know he can hit. We all do. If the emotion dissipates, so can the performance. Hernández could have been the goat Saturday night, in what would have been the Dodgers' first loss in this postseason. Instead, he hit the game-winning home run, nearly levitated around first base, and became an October hero yet again."
"In the Dodgers' three postseason games so far this year, he has hit three home runs and driven in nine. You might fret about his uneven defense. You might second guess a defensive play that put the Dodgers deeper into an early hole. All's well that ends well, as evidenced by his three-run home run that powered the Dodgers to a 5-3 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies in the National League division series opener."
Teoscar Hernández delivered a three-run, seventh-inning home run that lifted the Dodgers to a 5-3 comeback victory over the Philadelphia Phillies. Hernández committed an earlier defensive miscue on a Shohei Ohtani fastball that skipped past him and contributed to the Phillies taking a three-run lead. Hernández has homered three times in three postseason games this year and driven in nine runs so far, matching last October's homer total from many more games. He plays with exuberant emotion, says he discards prior mistakes and focuses on the moment, and his clutch blast redeemed the misplay to seal the division-series opener.
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