Dodgers: Enrique Hernandez Participates in Home Run Challenge
Video game publisher Activision teamed up with Dodgers super utility player Kiké Hernandez to promote their new reboot of “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare” for PC and console. Thankfully for Dodger fans, the collaboration was very baseball centric.
We go to Hernandez’s Instagram page for the video.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B4OSFJfD6Ph/?igshid=46h1cem5uapl
Yes, the challenge was for Kiké to hit a home run in the dark while wearing night vision goggles. Spoiler alert — if you didn’t watch the above video — he successfully connected for the dinger.
Some fun factors in this video:
- The uniform is pretty on point, even if it’s similar to the 2019 Player’s Weekend threads that were widely panned by players and fans
- Enrique’s position is astutely labeled as “utility”
- The video impressively incorporates Stat Cast numbers for a number of values
- Pitch Velo: 86 MPH
- Bat Speed: 84 MPH
- Exit Velo: 103.8 MPH
- Launch Angle: 30.1 degrees
- Distance: 415 ft
More tidbits from the video include the coordinates of 33.8866° N. 117.8855° W. which puts the location at Cal State Fullerton’s Goodwin Field.
While Hernandez is not widely known as a premiere gamer on the Dodgers — that honor would fall to Cody Bellinger (who brings his monitor with him on flights) — it’s still cool to see this collab with a Dodger.
Oh, and for what it’s worth, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is available now on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.
Like should not be encouraged to be a homerun hitter. We are no doubt missing out on his potential. Imagine him becoming a contact hitter, with his speed and ability he could be a line drive machine hitting .300 every season and setting the table for the big guns.. Sad that some people in baseball think every player should develop the same skill set!