How an Unlikely Brotherhood Between Teoscar Hernández and Andy Pages Is Quietly Powering the Dodgers’ Rise

How an Unlikely Brotherhood Between Teoscar Hernández and Andy Pages Is Quietly Powering the Dodgers’ Rise

“This game is hard,” Hernández told him. “You’re gonna fail more times than you have success.”

All players know that when they arrive in the majors. But understanding it is different. And only with experience, Hernández had learned, came the ability to navigate such adversity.

“When you realize that as a player, and you get it, everything becomes easier to handle,” Hernández said.

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A similar dynamic was at play early this season.

Despite returning to the majors late last year and exploding for a two-homer game in the National League Championship Series, Pages entered this season on the fringes of the Dodgers’ MLB roster. And even though he made the team coming out of camp, he felt pressure to try and entrench his place permanently in the big leagues.

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