The seed-tossing outfielder heads to the All-Star Game sitting second on the Dodgers in home runs (19) and RBIs (62) and leading them in two-out RBIs (25), welcome contributions with Max Muncy side…
The Dodgers’ Teoscar Hernández brought the tradition of celebrating home runs with sunflower seed showers to the team this year and he has been pelted with his share while contributing All-Star-worthy stats during his first season with the team. Hernandez will participate in the Home Run Derby on Monday night and is one of five Dodgers on the National League roster for the All-Star Game on Tuesday.
“It started when I got traded to Toronto,” Mr. Seeds said of his origins story. “I got traded in ’17. That’s when all the teams started celebrating homers and all that stuff. The Blue Jays didn’t have anything. At that time they had a contract with a different brand of sunflower seeds – and we had a bunch. So I started throwing and throwing and throwing.
Batting behind some combination of fellow All-Stars Ohtani, Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman and Will Smith, the RBI opportunities have been plentiful for Hernandez — his 108 at-bats with runners in scoring position are second in the majors. And the Dodgers are getting all this for the low, low price of $15 million down and 10 easy payments of $850,000 each starting in 2030.
Hernandez would rather not go through it again. He doesn’t hesitate to say he would like to continue tossing sunflower seeds as a Dodger beyond this season.
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