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 put up by stating, “I may not be Born & Raised, but this city adopted me as one of their 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 mentioned lots extra within the put up, which appears to have impressed Palsino. The 2-time World Sequence champion expressed assist for his adopted metropolis’s immigrants and dismay at what number of of them have been being handled in a collection of sweeps by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The sweeps in Los Angeles have sparked protests domestically and elsewhere within the nation.
“I am saddened and infuriated by what’s happening in our country and our city,” Hernández wrote. “Los Angeles and Dodger fans have welcomed me, supported me and shown me nothing but kindness and love. This is my second home. And I cannot stand to see our community being violated, profiled, abused and ripped apart. ALL people deserve to be treated with respect, dignity and human rights.”
Beneath the title Sloe Motions, Palsino has painted a variety of high-profile murals, together with one within the Style 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 Occasions to an announcement he posted about it on Instagram final week.
Palsino painted the Hernández mural on a constructing that already featured two of his different Dodgers-themed items — one in every of legendary broadcaster Vin Scully on an adjoining wall and one in every of iconic Mexican pitcher Fernando Valenzuela on the gate in entrance of the storage’s driveway
When the gate is pulled open, a break 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 photos 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 residence runs, together with a grand slam, in Sport 5 of the Nationwide League Championship Sequence towards the Chicago Cubs to assist ship the Dodgers to the World Sequence.
He signed with the Boston Purple Sox as a free agent after the Dodgers’ 2020 World Sequence 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 residence runs in a 2-0 win towards the San Diego Padres within the decisive Sport 5 of the NL Division Sequence. He then contributed seven hits and 4 RBIs within the NLCS towards the New York Mets and 5 hits towards the New York Yankees within the 2024 World Sequence.
