LA Times · Oct 2, 2025
It must be October, because Super Kiké Hernández is here
Kiké Hernández, left, celebrates with Mookie Betts after scoring in the fourth inning of an 8-4 win over the Cincinnati Reds.For Kiké Hernández, the regular season is little more than a six-month warm-up. Real baseball is played when the evening air turns crisp and the leaves begin to change.
And when summer turns to fall few players have stepped up bigger than Hernández, who had two hits, scored two runs and drove in another Wednesday, spurring a Dodger comeback that ended in an 8-4 win over the Cincinnati Reds and a sweep of their National League wild-card series.
That sends the team on to the best-of-five Division Series with the Phillies, which begins Saturday in Philadelphia.