Hernández didn’t have a hit in the last two games against the Brewers, but is still hitting .306/.375/.417 with four doubles and seven runs scored in 10 games this postseason. Even without a hit in Game 4 of the NLCS, Hernández made an impact with a strong throw from left field to double off Blake Perkins at first base in the third inning.
The multi-position specialist is a career .236/.305/.403 hitter with a 91 wRC+ during the regular season. He’s played in the playoffs in all but one of his 12 major league seasons, missing only in 2022 while with the Boston Red Sox. Hernández in the postseason is a .282/.356/.506 hitter with 15 home runs in 96 games and a 132 wRC+.
Hernández missed nearly two months this year with a left elbow injury, and played only intermittently after returning in September. He’s started all 10 games so far in the postseason, splitting time between left field and third base, and has played all but two innings thus far. Coupled with the final four games of the regular season, this is Hernández’s longest streak of games played this season, and he’s started every one.
“Humbled, fortunate. This is not just any franchise, man. This is the LA Dodgers. They’ve been around for a long time, and they have a lot of history And for a guy like me from Puerto Rico, kind of swam against the current my entire life, to be sitting in this position is pretty special,” Hernández said Friday. “But at the same time, I haven’t really wanted to reflect too much on it because there’s going to be a time for that once I’m done playing, and I’m going to have a lot of years to reflect on it.
“But for now, I’m just, I mean, as cool as that is and I’m going to take that to the grave with me, I’m just focused on today. And it will be cool if my name is up there with the most Dodger World Series ever. But to be creeping up on playing the most playoff games as a Dodger is something that I never really dreamed of or thought that would happen.”
He’s played in the postseason in nine different years for the Dodgers (2015-20, 2023-25), ties with Turner (2014-22) and Kenley Jansen (2013-21) for second-most in Dodgers history, behind only Clayton Kershaw’s 13 postseasons.