Dodgers: Kiké Hernandez homers immediately after FOX jinxes Braves

Dodgers outfielder Kiké Hernandez drilled a home run immediately after the Fox broadcaster went nuts for the Braves’ scoreless streak.

The Los Angeles Dodgers had plenty of trouble with Southern California’s own Max Fried on Monday night in Game 1 of the NLDS, but luckily, the extremely clutch Kiké Hernandez came to the rescue in the middle innings.

In fact, basically no one has hit the Braves this postseason; their team ERA is surprisingly comparable to the Reds of the 1940s. We’re talking dented baseballs and emery boards. People don’t pitch this well.

Which means Joe Buck and John Smoltz on the FOX broadcast should’ve known exactly what was coming the second they extolled the virtues of Atlanta’s staff live on air.

Why, just about no one has hit the Braves during this past two-week stretch. No one at all! Now, time to look at the field of play and assume no one homer–oh, my, there goes Kiké.

Streaks are meant to be broken!

This rough-and-tumble series has, of course, opened with a pitchers’ duel featuring some of the most fearsome fastballs in the west on one side (Buehler to Graterol to Dustin May) and an all-time bender in the other dugout (Fried really is nasty, we get it now).

Though the Dodgers weren’t really up to the challenge of posting offense early and often in this one, they certainly appreciated FOX’s attempt to get the bats going a little bit during a league-wide scoring drought.

Kiké Hernandez, who always seems to be in the mix once the postseason rolls around, certainly did.

This wasn’t quite the three-homer game at Wrigley, but if the LAD manage to rally against Atlanta’s bullpen, it could be just as impactful.

Now, for the remainder of this tight ballgame, can somebody hold us, please?

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