Keith Hernandez had to change the channel while he had the chance.
Hernandez, who stayed home with a back injury while SNY colleagues Gary Cohen and Todd Zeile picked up the series from San Francisco as the Mets took three of four games from the middling NL West team.
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“I tried to watch the Giants series, Gare, but the Giants played so horribly that I had to turn it off,” Hernandez said Tuesday on SNY during the Mets’ 4-3 win in 10 innings over the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Cohen then quipped back, “Todd and I were not compelling enough to keep your attention?”
Hernandez pointed out it had more to do with the Giants than it did with Cohen’s commentary.
“Had nothing to do with you guys. It just was … the defense, I just was stunned,” Hernandez continued.
“When it was finally 6-0, I turned it off,” he added while mimicking turning off a television, seemingly referring to Saturday’s 9-0 victory.
The Mets dominated the series against the Giants after dropping the opening game of a four-game set.
Tony Vitello has a lot of work to do turn around the Giants this season. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect San Francisco is not exactly impressing under new manager Tony Vitello, who is looking to turn things around following an 81-81 campaig.
It doesn’t appear that he is the second coming of Bruce Bochy, though.
Team leader Matt Chapman had a horrific week, as told by Cohen.
Keith Hernandez returned to the Mets’ booth with not so kind Giants commentary. Between yelling expletives at his teammates for making bone-headed plays on the diamond to making his own terrible base running blunders, Chpaman and the Giants looked lost all week.
The Giants are the worst offense in all of baseball right now, averaging an MLB-low 3.0 runs per game.
