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.