Dodgers pitcher Rich Hill explained why he didn’t like Trump’s World Series tweet
The Massachusetts born starter weighed in on Trump's criticism of Dave Roberts.
Dodgers starting pitcher Rich Hill wasn’t happy that despite everything in the current news cycle, the president would choose to spend time tweeting about Los Angeles manager Dave Roberts.
After President Trump’s tweet on Saturday night – in which he criticized Roberts’s polarizing decision to remove Hill with the Dodgers up 4-0 in the seventh inning of Game 4 of the World Series – it was the veteran pitcher’s turn to be the critic.
“There was a mass shooting yesterday,” Hill told reporters. “The focus, in my opinion, of the president is to be on the country, and not on moves that are made in a World Series game.”
Hill was referencing the shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday that left 11 dead and six wounded.
Roberts, Red Sox manager Alex Cora, and Dodgers reliever Dylan Floro also had responses to Trump’s tweet about Game 4, which the Red Sox rallied to win, 9-6. Boston’s win gave them a 3-1 lead in the series.
The 38-year-old Hill is originally from Milton, Massachusetts. He pitched six scoreless innings, but was pulled by Roberts with one out and one on in the seventh. Hill would eventually be charged with one of the three earned runs allowed by relief pitcher Ryan Madson on Mitch Moreland’s home run later in the inning.
