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Yahoo
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Brewers' Christian Yelich sinks Red Sox with walk-off grand slam, the first walk-off HR of his career
Christian Yelich woke up Tuesday having never hit a walk-off home run in his 12-plus season MLB career. He ended the drought in grand fashion Tuesday night. With his Milwaukee Brewers and the Boston Red Sox knotted in a 1-1 tie in the bottom of the 10th inning, Yelich tripled the game's run tally with one swing of his bat. Advertisement After Jorey Ortiz was given second base because it was extra innings, the Brewers loaded the bases with a Brice Turang single and a Jackson Chourio walk. William Contreras flied out, bringing Yelich to the plate. Yelich watched a first-pitch ball and a second-pitch strike without a swing. When Liam Hendricks left a third-pitch slider over the heart of the plate, Yelich unleashed. And there was no doubt about this one. As soon as Yelich made contact, the entirety of American Family Field knew it was gone. The ball traveled deep over the right field wall for a walk-off grand slam and a 5-1 Brewers win. Before that blast, Yelich had hit 213 career home runs in the regular season. None of them were of the walk-off variety. Now Yelich knows one of the best feelings in baseball that he didn't before. Advertisement 'It was kind of a weird feeling going around the bases knowing that the game's over," Yelich told reporters postgame. "Obviously, I've never done that before.' Yelich's heroics provided the Brewers with a much-needed win as they improved to .500 at 28-28 in a crowded NL Central and race for the NL wild card. They also provided a boost to the former MVP, who's off to a slow start this season and entered Tuesday's game flirting with the Mendoza Line with a .205/.294/.364 slash line with nine home runs and 30 RBI. Yelich finished the night going 2 for 5 at the plate with two runs scored and the grand slam providing all four of his RBI.
Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Red Sox reliever Liam Hendricks addresses 'horrible and cruel' threats from fans after loss to Mets
Red Sox reliever Liam Hendricks responded to the comments and threats he received on social media after Boston's loss to the New York Mets on Wednesday. Fans pinned the 5-1 defeat on Hendricks, who relieved Garrett Crochet in the sixth inning. Despite striking out two batters with the score tied at 1-1 to get out of the sixth, Hendricks gave up three straight hits without recording an out in the seventh — all of which led to the Mets piling on the lead. On Thursday, Hendricks took to Instagram to lash out at the "disgusting" response from fans. "Just as an FYI: Threats against my life and my wife's life are horrible and cruel," Hendricks wrote in an Instagram story. "You need help. Leaving comments to tell me to commit suicide and how you wish I died of cancer is disgusting and vile. "Maybe you should take a step back and reevaluate your life's purpose before hiding behind a screen attacking players and their family," he continued. "Whether you do it from your 'fake accounts' or are dumb enough to do it from your real account. I think I speak for all players who have had to deal with this in their career when I say: Enough is enough." The 14-year veteran's response alluded to him sitting out in 2024 while recovering from Tommy John surgery after his battle with non-Hodgkin lymphoma cost him most of the 2023 season. Hendricks is not the only MLB player to receive threatening messages from fans in recent weeks. Earlier this month, Astros pitcher Lance McCullers addressed fans threatening his children after a tough outing against the Cincinnati Reds. McMuller's comments were in the same vein: "It's been a tough evening. I understand people are very passionate and people love the Astros and love sports, but threatening to find my kids and murder them is a little bit tough to deal with. "So, just as a father, I think there have been many, many threats over the years aimed at me mostly, and I think actually one or two people from other issues around baseball actually had to go to jail for things like that. But I think bringing kids into the equation, threatening to find them or next time they see us in public, they're gonna stab my kids to death, things like that, it's tough to hear as a dad.' Hendricks joined the Red Sox this season after stints in Minnesota, Toronto, Kansas City, Oakland and Chicago with the White Sox. Since arriving in Boston, the 36-year-old has struggled, throwing 11.1 innings with a 5.56 ERA over his 11 appearances for the Red Sox. Boston sits third in the American League East with a 25-26 record.
Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Red Sox reliever Liam Hendricks addresses 'horrible and cruel' threats from fans after loss to Mets
Boston Red Sox relief pitcher Liam Hendricks addressed the threats he received after losing to the New York Mets. (Nathan Ray Seebeck/USA TODAY Sports) Red Sox reliever Liam Hendricks responded to the comments and threats he received on social media after Boston's loss to the New York Mets on Wednesday. Fans pinned the 5-1 defeat on Hendricks, who relieved Garrett Crochet in the sixth inning. Despite striking out two batters with the score tied at 1-1, Hendricks gave away three hits without an out in the seventh — all of which led to the Mets piling on the lead. Advertisement On Thursday, Hendricks took to Instagram to lash out on the "disgusting" response from fans. "Just as an FYI: Threats against my life and my wife's life are horrible and cruel," Hendricks wrote in an Instagram story. "You need help. Leaving comments to tell me to commit suicide and how you wish I died of cancer is disgusting and vile. "Maybe you should take a step back and reevaluate your life's purpose before hiding behind a screen attacking players and their family," he continued. "Whether you do it from your 'fake accounts" or are dumb enough to do it from your real account. I think I speak for all players who have had to deal with this in their career when I say: Enough is enough." Advertisement The 14-year veteran's response alluded to him sitting out in 2024 while recovering from Tommy John surgery after his battle with non-Hodgkin lymphoma cost him most of the 2023 season. Hendricks is not the only MLB player to receive threatening messages from fans in recent weeks. Earlier this month, Astros pitcher Lance McCullers addressed fans threatening his children after a tough outing against the Cincinnati Reds. McMuller's comments were in the same vein: It's been a tough evening. I understand people are very passionate and people love the Astros and love sports, but threatening to find my kids and murder them is a little bit tough to deal with. "So, just as a father, I think there have been many, many threats over the years aimed at me mostly, and I think actually one or two people from other issues around baseball actually had to go to jail for things like that. But I think bringing kids into the equation, threatening to find them or next time they see us in public, they're gonna stab my kids to death, things like that, it's tough to hear as a dad.' Hendricks joined the Red Sox this season after stints in Minnesota, Toronto, Kansas City, Oakland and Chicago with the White Sox. Since arriving in Boston, the 36-year-old has struggled, throwing 11.1 innings with a 5.56 ERA over his 11 appearances for the Red Sox. Boston sits third in the American League East with a 25-26 record.
