Keith Hernandez takes weight jab at Pablo Sandoval: ‘Didn't do the push-ups from the dinner table'
Mets great Keith Hernandez and play-by-play man Gary Cohen began talking about Sandoval after a trivia question about San Francisco's World Series MVPs in the 2010s.
'He always had the weight issues,' Hernandez said of Sandoval on the SNY broadcast of Sunday's Mets-Giants game at Citi Field. 'He just fell off a cliff, but he had some big years for the Giants. Didn't he go to the Red Sox? Just kind of bombed out there. He came back [to the Giants] and didn't do the push-ups from the dinner table.'
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Sandoval, nicknamed Kung Fu Panda, was World Series MVP with the Giants in 2012 after hitting .500 with three homers and four RBIs in a dominant sweep of the Tigers.
The Venezuelan enjoyed the best years of his career in his first stint with the Giants, from 2008-14.
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Pablo Sandoval with the Giants during Game 4 of the 2014 World Series.
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Sandoval was an All-Star in 2011 and '12, and he won three World Series titles in San Francisco (2010, '12, '14).
Weight was an issue for Sandoval throughout his career, but it became a major storyline when he signed a five-year, $95 million contract with the Red Sox ahead of the 2015 season and showed up for spring training overweight.
Mets broadcaster Keith Hernandez on July 9, 2022.
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Sandoval went on to play three lackluster seasons in Boston before returning to the Giants from 2018-20 and closing out his career with the Braves in 2021.
Moments after Hernandez made his comments in the top of the third inning, Giants DH Rafael Devers crushed a three-run homer, and San Francisco went on to rout the Mets, 12-4.
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