MLB Teams Always Has Unique Ways To Celebrate Home Run: Take A Look At The Best

Everybody celebrates success in their own particular manner. Such celebrations as a high five or a pat on the back can be fairly understated. Sometimes it can be very absurd or downright funny. Over the years, MLB baseball has had its fair share of somewhat “unique” celebrators. The best baseball-related customs for celebrating are listed below.

MLB Teams Always Has Unique Ways To Celebrate Home Run: Take A Look At The Best

Boston Red Sox: inflatable dumbbells

Fans of the Red Sox may have noticed that the team is celebrating home runs differently in 2023 than in previous seasons during Boston’s first four games of the season.

Recently, after rounding the bases for the Red Sox, home run batters were given a ride through the dugout. However, this season the washing cart has vanished and been replaced by inflatable dumbbells. Those accessories were motivated by Red Sox rookie Maastaka Yoshida, known as “Macho Man” during his time playing in Nippon Professional Baseball.

If the Sox will keep their joyful curls, it remains to be seen. However, the Red Sox are putting it into action now that the instigator of the laundry cart victory lap has departed Boston.

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Toronto Blue Jays: phantom home run jacket

The Blue Jays home run jacket has been a recognisable symbol of their transformation into a postseason contender over the last two seasons. The jacket was first given to the group in 2021 by translator Hector “Tito” Lebron, and it has since come to symbolise dinger hitters in the Toronto dugout.

However, the jacket has finally been spotted by Blue Jays supporters. We’ve witnessed home runs from the squad, but no championship after Toronto finished their first two seasons.

The home run jacket’s two-season tenure with the organisation came to an end when the team stated that they would no longer be using it. The absence of the home run jacket from the Blue jays is due to a shift in the locker room mentality.

Manager John Schneider discussed the mentality shift in the team, stating that the clubhouse is going to shift away from going crazy for home runs and focus that energy on winning the game.

“It’s time to go from a talented, fun team to a talented, fun team that’s going to scrap and claw and find ways to win games,” Schneider said. “It’s a fine line between silly and fun. There’s something to be said about acting like you’ve been there.”

Schneider was not directly talking about the home run jacket, but it was a part of the fun-loving shenanigans that went on in the dugout during games the last two years for Toronto.

“I love having fun,” Schneider said. “You’ve got to have fun. It’s a long season and it’s a game. As long as you’re prepared and attentive, then winning becomes fun. The most fun to have in baseball is winning.”

Milwaukee Brewers: Cheesehead crown

The Brewers have frequently come up with inventive methods to celebrate home runs at American Family Field, from a dugout bell to the ‘home run gauntlet’ in the dugout to the… well, another gauntlet.

The variation from this year has a distinctive Wisconsin character. A cheesehead, that is.

When Milwaukee went on an unlikely back-to-back-to-back home run tear against Mets ace Max Scherzer in the sixth inning on Tuesday, the Brewers got to wear the fun foam wedge atop their heads three times. Home runs from Rowdy Tellez, Brian Anderson, and Garrett Mitchell helped the Brewers take a 5-0 lead. The Brewers’ dugout during Monday’s home opener was where the item was first noticed.

When Anderson homered once more in the eighth, giving him six RBI for the game and three home runs through the first two games of the series, he put the cheesehead on once more. After then, Mitchell hit his second home run of the contest.

The Green Bay Packers and Wisconsin sports in general have long been linked, of course, by the cheesehead. It’s appropriate that Packers running back A.J. Dillon threw out Tuesday’s inaugural pitch.

Ralph Bruno, a supporter of the Milwaukee Brewers, came up with the idea initially and began marketing his foam sculptures at baseball games in 1987.

Maybe the team is taking back its rightful position in Brewers history.

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Los Angeles Angels: Golden State Warriors hat (?)

In Oakland’s 6-0 loss on Sunday at the Coliseum, the Angels started off Athletics pitcher Ken Waldichuk, and Los Angeles had a unique way to celebrate its three home runs.

Logan O’Hoppe, a rookie with the Angels, hit his first MLB home run in the fourth inning. When he returned to the dugout, his teammates replaced his helmet with a sun hat.

The cap, upon closer scrutiny, had the MLB Golden State Warriors’ emblem.

The following inning saw back-to-back home runs from Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani, both of whom were sporting Warriors hats.

Unfortunately for the Angels, the Warriors hat celebration isn’t going to last. According to Erica Weston of Bally Sports West, the present prop is only a stand-in until the real one shows up.

“There were a lot of questions after we saw Taylor Ward don it for the first time this season, the Warriors stuff,” Weston said during Sunday’s broadcast. “It’s a temporary home run celebration at the moment. A soft-launch if you will. There is something better on the way, I’m told. Hasn’t arrived quite yet. They haven’t quite got their eyes on it in person. It’s not a hat. Not a chain. It’s not a jacket. So let the mystery begin.”

The Angels might want to keep the Warriors cap as their celebration prop given that they won two out of the three games they played there to start the season. However, it appears like they are working on something more distinctive.

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