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By Shaun McAvoy
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The Los Angeles Dodgers have the potential to be the first team in 25 years to secure back-to-back World Series wins after sweeping the Milwaukee Brewers in the NLCS.
After a dominant NLCS which included one of the best single game playoff performances ever, with superstar Shohei Ohtani striking out 10 batters in Game 4 pitching and tacking on three home runs, the Dodgers are back in the World Series. As Los Angeles prepares for its most important series of the year, one Dodgers player is set to break a franchise record.
While speaking to SBNation's Eric Stephen during a press conference before Game 4 of the NLCS, Kiké Hernández was surprised when he informed he would be breaking a Dodgers franchise record for most postseason games played during the World Series.
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“Humbled, fortunate. This is not just any franchise, man. This is the LA Dodgers," Hernández said Friday. "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. 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.”
Hernández will match Justin Turner's record of 86 total postseason games Friday in Game 1, but will the surpass it. The 34-year-old has spent nine seasons with the Dodgers, and made it to the playoffs each season. Hernández is slashing .306/.375/.792 this postseason with four doubles and four RBIs and will look to keep up the momentum in the World Series.
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