Foul Ball Skims Mets Broadcaster Keith Hernandez in Baltimore Booth

A foul ball entered the visiting television booth at Camden Yards on 10 July, narrowly missing New York Mets analyst Keith Hernandez as he and play-by-play partner Gary Cohen called the second game of a double-header against the Baltimore Orioles on SNY. The liner, hit by Orioles center-fielder Cedric Mullins off Mets reliever Rico Garcia with one out in the bottom of the seventh, sailed past Hernandez’s right ear before landing behind him. Hernandez, who never saw the ball coming, flinched only after it struck the booth’s back wall. Cohen quipped that the near-miss "could have been dangerous," while MASN counterparts Kevin Brown and Ben McDonald, watching from the adjacent home booth, praised the Mets crew’s poise and joked that Hernandez’s reaction was destined to go viral. No one was injured, and play resumed without delay.