Adeiny? Oh baby! (Just a thought, John.)
This is absolutely remarkable. John Sterling did not have a HR call prepared for Adeiny Hechavarria. This is the first time a I’ve ever been disappointed by Pa Pinstripe. pic.twitter.com/QYUQOuL0AF
— Jimmy Traina (@JimmyTraina) September 5, 2018
John Sterling, the legendary voice of the Yankees radio broadcast, is famously known for having a home run call on deck for every Yankees player — except he didn’t have one for new shortstop Adeiny Hechavarria.
Hechavarria smacked his first longball in pinstripes in the ninth inning in the 5-1 win against the Athletics, but surprisingly, Sterling didn’t have much to say.
“Back goes [Mark] Canha, on the track, on the wall leaping — it’s gone!” Sterling said on the broadcast. “Hechavarria hits his first Yankee home run. How bout that, huh? A long drive over the left field wall and the Yankees now take a 4-1 lead.”
Sterling, who had been under the weather recently, hasn’t missed a Yankees broadcast since he missed two games in 1989 after his sister’s death.
“The next time he hits one, I’ll have one,” Sterling told The Post’s Andrew Marchand. “I was unprepared. I never gave it a thought.”
He did not reveal what the call would be.
The Yankees acquired Hechavarria from the Pirates earlier this month for a player to be named or cash. The utility man now has five home runs for the season.
