Dodger Kiké Hernández honored in new North Hollywood mural
Dodgers utility participant Kiké Hernández was not born and raised in Los Angeles.
A North Hollywood mural seemingly impressed by the San Juan, Puerto Rico, native’s stance on immigration sweeps exhibits that doesn’t matter.
Hernández started a June 14 Instagram publish by stating, “I might not be Born & Raised, however this metropolis adopted me as one among their very own.”
Native artist Louie Palsino has cemented the second a part of that assertion in a brand new mural on the aspect of the Noho Tires & Wheels constructing on the 5600 block of Lankershim Boulevard. It options Hernández’s picture surrounded by the phrases “Born X Raised” and “Los Angeles.”
Hernández stated lots extra within the publish, which appears to have impressed Palsino. The 2-time World Collection champion expressed help for his adopted metropolis’s immigrants and dismay at what number of of them had been being handled in a sequence of sweeps by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The sweeps in Los Angeles have sparked protests regionally and elsewhere within the nation.
“I’m saddened and infuriated by what’s taking place in our nation and our metropolis,” Hernández wrote. “Los Angeles and Dodger followers have welcomed me, supported me and proven me nothing however kindness and love. That is my second house. And I can not stand to see our neighborhood being violated, profiled, abused and ripped aside. ALL individuals should be handled with respect, dignity and human rights.”
Below the identify Sloe Motions, Palsino has painted quite a lot of high-profile murals, together with one within the Vogue District of Kobe and Gianna Bryant that was vandalized, restored, then vandalized once more all inside the previous few months.
He declined to debate the Hernández mural for this story, as a substitute directing The Instances to a press release he posted about it on Instagram final week.
“Thanks @kikehndez for standing up for what is true and for Los Angeles,” Palsino wrote. “this ain’t a political publish or something to fire up any authorities agenda to divide us. that is simply paying homage to standing up for what is true and an actual one.god over authorities.”
Palsino painted the Hernández mural on a constructing that already featured two of his different Dodgers-themed items — one among legendary broadcaster Vin Scully on an adjoining wall and one among iconic Mexican pitcher Fernando Valenzuela on the gate in entrance of the storage’s driveway
When the gate is pulled open, a cut up picture of Valenzuela and Hernandez is created.
Native artist Louie Palsino has painted a number of Dodgers-themed murals on the Noho Tires & Wheels constructing in North Hollywood, together with photographs of (clockwise from left) Vin Scully, Kiké Hernández and Fernando Valenzuela.
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Hernández has been a Dodgers fan favourite since his first stint with the workforce in 2015-20. In 2017, he hit three house runs, together with a grand slam, in Sport 5 of the Nationwide League Championship Collection in opposition to the Chicago Cubs to assist ship the Dodgers to the World Collection.
He signed with the Boston Pink Sox as a free agent after the Dodgers’ 2020 World Collection championship, however returned to L.A. in a July 2023 commerce. Hernández hit .262 in 54 video games with the Dodgers that season, serving to him earn a one-year, $4-million contract for 2024.
Final postseason, Hernández was a key member of one other Dodgers championship workforce. He hit one of many Dodgers’ two solo house runs in a 2-0 win in opposition to the San Diego Padres within the decisive Sport 5 of the NL Division Collection. He then contributed seven hits and 4 RBIs within the NLCS in opposition to the New York Mets and 5 hits in opposition to the New York Yankees within the 2024 World Collection.