Amazingly, the biggest media fallout from the Miami Marlins’ Jose Ureña drilling the Atlanta Braves’ Ronald Acuña with the very first pitch of the game Wednesday may come from a broadcaster on a completely different game.
That would be Keith Hernandez, the SNY Mets analyst, who decided to weigh in on this during their Mets-Orioles Wednesday broadcast. The situation already had provoked plenty of outrage across the web at Ureña and the Braves, but Hernandez decided to endorse Ureña plunking Acuña for the crime of Acuña’s previous home runs against the Marlins, saying “You gotta hit him”: