MILWAUKEE \u2014 Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez made no excuses about his baserunning mistake in Game 1 of the NLCS.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just f\u2014 up,\u201d Hern\u00e1ndez said to reporters ahead of Game 2. \u201cIt\u2019s that simple.\u201d<\/p>\n
For all the unusual aspects of the moment \u2014 when Max Muncy had a potential grand slam robbed, but not caught, at the wall in center field and two Dodgers runners were forced out on the bases \u2014 Hern\u00e1ndez had the simplest read.<\/p>\n
Whether or not Brewers center fielder Sal Frelick completed the catch (which he didn\u2019t, since it bounced off the wall in between a bobble), Hern\u00e1ndez could have broke for home from third as soon as the ball hit Frelick\u2019s glove. Instead, as he saw Frelick bobble it, Hern\u00e1ndez went back and re-tagged third base, giving the Brewers time to turn a relay play that beat him to the plate.<\/p>\n
\u201cTeo knows the rule,\u201d manager Dave Roberts said after the game. \u201cI think right there he had just a little bit of a brain fart\u2026 But he owned it. And after that there\u2019s nothing else you can do about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hern\u00e1ndez, who did not speak to reporters following the game but was one of two Dodgers players to talk during a news conference before Game 2, acknowledged as much a day later.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was one of those plays that if you would have asked me two days ago what would you do in this situation, I would say, as soon as the ball touched the glove, I would go,\u201d Hern\u00e1ndez said. \u201cBut in the moment, I got blocked, I think, and there\u2019s not an explanation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI saw it when the ball hit the glove, I went,\u201d he added. \u201cThen I saw it bounced off the glove. And I just reacted bad. Just one of those moments, you block your mind. But there\u2019s nobody to blame but myself. And it happens.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE \u2014 Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez made no excuses about his baserunning mistake in Game 1 of the NLCS. \u201cI…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[1457,52835,122754,3959,4279,1010,934,4281,2325,105313,2697,99,126513,2384,126512,35620],"class_list":["post-225537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-am","tag-american-family-field","tag-brewers-game","tag-dodger","tag-dodgers","tag-hbo-max","tag-live-update","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-national-league-championship-series","tag-odd","tag-sports","tag-tbs","tag-time","tag-trutv","tag-tv-schedule"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}