Baseball fans aren’t about to let Kiké Hernandez revise the narrative on them.
The Los Angeles Dodgers utilityman Hernandez spoke with reporters Saturday before Game 7 of the World Series vs. the Toronto Blue Jays. Hernandez notably held his media session while wearing a headband that read, “Believe.”
Enrique Hernandez’s headband: Believe pic.twitter.com/cnC5YEVmXm
— Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) November 1, 2025
Fans all made the same joke over social media about Hernandez’s headband — that he forgot about the fact that the Dodgers had spent over a billion dollars on their roster.
Billion dollar underdog story https://t.co/WIHLLR1KG3
— Cozy (@sad_cozy) November 1, 2025
Hard not to root for the scrappy little underdog from LA https://t.co/Md7iEIZGea
— Zachary Bohn (@zcbohn) November 1, 2025
Billion dollar team acting as the underdog pic.twitter.com/fsfVRvPyvW
— Nico Hoerner Enthusiast 🇲🇽 (@NicoHoernerSZN) November 1, 2025
The billion dollar moneyball story
— rob (@YuhBoyRob) November 1, 2025
The Dodgers are the defending World Series champions with three former or reigning MVPs on their team (Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts, and Freddie Freeman) as well as a league-high payroll this season of $240 million. With Los Angeles’ total money spent topping one billion dollars when you count deferred payments, they are obviously in no way the underdogs here.
Still, Hernandez, who has produced seven RBIs this postseason, and other role players have helped buoy the Dodgers during the playoffs when some of their bigger stars have struggled. The 34-year-old Hernandez has also become known over the years for his ridiculous choices of outfit, and that continued ahead of the final game of the 2025 MLB season on Saturday.
