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Kiké Hernandez wore a banana suit to rally Dodgers during their 14-inning win

Mike Oz
Kiké Hernandez wore a banana suit to rally Dodgers during their 14-inning win

The Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants played some weird baseball Monday — 14 innings that stretched past midnight local time. When the Dodgers scored the winning run, on an Adrian Gonzalez single that made the score 5-4 at close to 1 a.m., some early risers on the East Coast were starting their days.

Such times demand drastic rallying powers. If you're the Dodgers, such times demand bananas.

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So Kiké Hernandez, the injured utilityman who introduced the team to the Rally Banana earlier this season, appeared on the Dodgers bench in extra innings in an actual banana suit. It's one thing to post banana emojis on Twitter but another entirely to show up in a bright yellow banana jacket while everyone else is in proper uniform.

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The how and why of all this was explained by J.P. Hoornsta of the L.A. Daily News, who learned that Fernandez was sent in banana uniform by none other than team president Andrew Friedman.

The 24-year-old utilityman was placed on the 15-day disabled list prior to the game with a Grade 1 hamstring, so he intentionally went inside the clubhouse in the ninth inning, in case the Dodgers happened to win in their final plate appearance. “I came in here to like contain myself,” he said, thinking that he might further injure his hamstring celebrating on the field.

According to Hernandez, Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman spotted him in the 12th inning wearing the banana suit. Hernandez said “Andrew saw me and said, ‘you’ve got to go down there.’ I said, I’ll get fined. He said, ‘I’ll pay your fine.’

Well, we know the Dodgers certainly have the money, so that part shouldn't be a problem.

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Mike Oz is the editor of Big League Stew on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at mikeozstew@yahoo.com or follow him on Twitter!