Kiké Hernández Says Dodgers ‘Do not Give a F–k’ in Viral Video After Clinching NLCS

The Los Angeles Dodgers superior to the NLCS on Friday night time, beating the San Diego Padres 2-0.

Kiké Hernández, when requested what separated this 12 months’s model of the workforce from the teams that fell brief in latest playoff appearances, provided a blunt—if not considerably cryptic—evaluation:

It is unclear whether or not Hernández meant the Dodgers did not care about any outdoors noise relating to their previous failures, have been merely enjoying a extra carefree and free model of baseball, or maybe a mixture of each.

Offseason additions like Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto definitely helped.

The previous was 0-for-4 on Friday and is hitting simply .200 this postseason, however his epic 2024 marketing campaign—he hit .310 with 54 homers, 130 RBI, 134 runs, 59 stolen bases and a 1.036 OPS, simply making him the frontrunner for NL MVP—helped to make sure that the Dodgers earned homefield benefit all through the postseason, that means the pivotal Recreation 5 towards the Padres was performed in Dodger Stadium.

And Yamamoto was incredible on the mound on Friday, throwing 5 scoreless innings whereas solely permitting two hits and a stroll, hanging out two. Dodgers pitchers, believed to be the workforce’s potential weak spot heading into these playoffs, held the explosive Padres offense scoreless for the ultimate 24 innings of the NLDS.

Hernández performed a starring function himself in Recreation 5, hitting a solo dwelling run within the second inning off of Yu Darvish that in the end was the game-winner (Teoscar Hernández added an insurance coverage dinger within the backside of the seventh).

Star outfielder Mookie Betts provided a much less provocative evaluation of the Dodgers than Hernández after the win, citing the workforce’s resilience.

“We went via a variety of accidents and a variety of ups and downs,” he mentioned on the Fox Sports activities broadcast. “However we combat and we maintain going. We obtained champagne on us proper now.”

“What’s loopy is that each one season, everybody says, ‘The Dodgers are profitable the World Sequence,’ then we get to this sequence and now we are the underdogs,” he added. “Someway we are the underdogs. That is what makes it enjoyable although, and whenever you’re on prime, everybody’s coming after you. Like I mentioned, that is what makes it enjoyable, makes it powerful for positive. But it surely’s what we signed up for.”

Up subsequent for these Dodgers would be the scrappy, upstart New York Mets, who fought and clawed their approach into the postseason behind well timed, clutch hitting. Not that Dodgers actually care who they’re going through, if Hernández’s perspective on their mindset is to be believed.