During the last World Series of the Major Leagues, we were all witnesses to the enormous complicity and harmony that exists in the Los Angeles Dodgers locker room, where its players move like fish in water and have created true human relationships of value that are reflected in their work on the field.
It’s always that one Dodgers duo…
Shohei Ohtani and Teoscar Hernández have always had an amazing bond and they’ve gotten closer since coming to LA. We love it 🤞💙 pic.twitter.com/PGNM3aPtby
— Dodgers Nation (@DodgersNation) July 6, 2024
Mutual sympathy even when they were rivals
One of the relationships that has stood out in recent months is the one between Japanese baseball sensation Shohei Ohtani and Dominican outfielder Teoscar Hernandez, who met as competitors and today are ‘thick as thieves’ in the Angels’ lineup, which is striking because of their very different cultural backgrounds.
Both took advantage of the fact that they arrived at the LA team at almost the same time, having a mutual sympathy when they faced each other, Shohei Ohtani with the Angels and Teoscar with the Toronto Blue Jays and the Seattle Mariners. This is how the Dominican told the program ‘Grandes en los Deportes’: “When we played against each other, for some reason, he always greeted me and I greeted him. Everything was like a friendship that arose out of nowhere with a player with a different culture than mine. I don’t know if he liked it, but we created this dynamic in which, out of nowhere, we began to talk a lot. We found ourselves alone and one found refuge in the other,” he said.
Neither of them speaks great English
Hernandez has the nickname of ‘Chino’ – the ‘Dominican Chino’ says Teoscar – and this funny coincidence tied with the oriental origin of Ohtani has given many pleasant moments in the locker room for them to bond more and more, which establishes a peaceful professional standard in which both adapt and learn from each other, as they communicate in English, a language they do not master, but are seeking to master, not without very funny moments by the phenomenon known as ‘lost in translation’.
The relationship between the two constantly complements and feeds off each other, both on and off the field, and has created an environment that helped the Angels win their eighth Fall Classic.
