MILWAUKEE — Teoscar Hernández made no excuses about his baserunning mistake in Game 1 of the NLCS.
“I just f— up,” Hernández said to reporters ahead of Game 2. “It’s that simple.”
For all the unusual aspects of the moment — 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 — Hernández had the simplest read.
Whether or not Brewers center fielder Sal Frelick completed the catch (which he didn’t, since it bounced off the wall in between a bobble), Hernández could have broke for home from third as soon as the ball hit Frelick’s glove. Instead, as he saw Frelick bobble it, Hernández went back and re-tagged third base, giving the Brewers time to turn a relay play that beat him to the plate.
“Teo knows the rule,” manager Dave Roberts said after the game. “I think right there he had just a little bit of a brain fart… But he owned it. And after that there’s nothing else you can do about it.”
Hernández, 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.
“It 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,” Hernández said. “But in the moment, I got blocked, I think, and there’s not an explanation.”
“I saw it when the ball hit the glove, I went,” he added. “Then I saw it bounced off the glove. And I just reacted bad. Just one of those moments, you block your mind. But there’s nobody to blame but myself. And it happens.”
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