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Charles Curtis

Eduardo Perez apologizes after unintentional jab at Fernando Tatis Jr. on Sunday Night Baseball

ESPN’s Eduardo Perez may not have known it at the time while broadcasting a San Diego Padres and Los Angeles Dodges tilt on Sunday Night Baseball, but there were a bunch of fans unhappy with something he said.

Mookie Betts had just hit a big home run in what would be a Dodgers win, and as ESPN cameras showed Fernandro Tatis Jr. looking bummed, Perez declared, “That’s what a superstar looks like, Nando.”

Ouch. What did he mean by that? Well, on Monday, he meant to just say that Betts was what a superstar looked like. But because the cameras focused on Tatis Jr., he threw in the outfielder’s name. He cringed right away, so he gets it.

He said he would apologize to Tatis Jr. despite his intentions, which feels right here.

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