{"id":419670,"date":"2023-03-09T18:23:16","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T18:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=419670"},"modified":"2023-03-09T18:23:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T18:23:16","slug":"whats-japans-pepper-grinder-celebration-that-shohei-ohtani-did-at-world-baseball-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/whats-japans-pepper-grinder-celebration-that-shohei-ohtani-did-at-world-baseball-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Japan\u2019s Pepper-Grinder Celebration That Shohei Ohtani Did At World Baseball Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/cardinals\">St. Louis Cardinals<\/a>&#8216; emerging talent Lars Nootbaar is well-known for his distinctive and enduring pepper-grinder celebrations. So what is the background of the widely shared gesture?<\/p>\n<h2>What&#8217;s Japan\u2019s Pepper-Grinder Celebration That Shohei Ohtani Did At World Baseball Classic<\/h2>\n<p>Before being selected by the Cardinals in the eighth round of the 2018 MLB draught, Nootbaar, a Southern California native, played collegiate baseball at the University of Southern California (USC). He rapidly established himself in the minor levels by demonstrating his tremendous work ethic and power-hitting skills.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lars Nootbaar has introduced the pepper grinder celebration to an entire country. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BSCuCRdHum\">pic.twitter.com\/BSCuCRdHum<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Shawn Spradling (@Shawn_Spradling) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Shawn_Spradling\/status\/1633571227280498689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Yet, Lars Nootbaar&#8217;s pepper-grinder celebration didn&#8217;t start to acquire popularity until his 2021 MLB rookie season. Both his teammates and the audience noticed the celebration, which quickly established itself as a standard element of Nootbaar&#8217;s post-home run routine. So where did the concept originate?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted a little hit celebration, something to do,\u201d\u00a0Nootbaar told reporters after the exhibition game. \u201cWe didn&#8217;t really know what to come up with. And so he said, \u2018Whatever I go out there and do first, that&#8217;s what we\u2019re gonna roll with.\u2019 So, I went out [and got a hit] in the first inning, we got the pepper grinder out there. And you know, we kind of stuck with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lars Nootbaar on Team Japan&#39;s Pepper Grinder Celebration &#8211; &quot;We didn&#39;t really know what to come up with&#8230;.So, I went out [and got a hit] in the first inning, we got the pepper grinder out there. And you know, we kind of stuck with it.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/STLCards?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#STLCards<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j1wpg49QA3\">pic.twitter.com\/j1wpg49QA3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Red Jacket Club Podcast (@Red_JacketClub) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Red_JacketClub\/status\/1632776643965079554?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The well-known celebration began last year while he was playing for the Cardinals to serve as motivation for him and his teammates to grind out a few more hits or runs. It began as a way to inspire teammates to put in extra effort and ultimately caught the attention of the crowd. Since then, it has developed into a well-known gesture that has been made even more well-known by printed clothing and accessories.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">He\u2019s already doing the pepper grinder celebration!<\/p>\n<p>FUTURE DODGER!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/f4Dl3H6cqQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/f4Dl3H6cqQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6dodgers_burner\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@dodgers_burner) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dodgers_burner\/status\/1632755110945357824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Oh, yep, it suddenly became &#8220;a thing,&#8221; to the extent that an unnamed teammate purchased a pepper grinder for Nootbaar, which was then used as a prop in crucial situations in the dugout. They created t-shirts. It was printed signs. Y\u2019know, \u201ca thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So when did Ohtani, one of Japan&#8217;s greatest idols, do it to commemorate the home run? It&#8217;s currently pretty much the biggest thing in Japan. And it&#8217;s rather astounding to consider how it came to be. Really, it&#8217;s almost incredible.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LDEKM8Zlj30\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR MORE MLB UPDATES-\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Know About Munetaka Murakami: The Japanese Home Run Champ\" href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/know-about-munetaka-murakami-the-japanese-home-run-champ\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Know About Munetaka Murakami: The Japanese Home Run Champ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Cardinals&#8216; emerging talent Lars Nootbaar is well-known for his distinctive and enduring pepper-grinder celebrations. So what is the background of the widely shared gesture? What&#8217;s Japan\u2019s Pepper-Grinder Celebration That Shohei Ohtani Did At World Baseball Classic Before being selected by the Cardinals in the eighth round of the 2018 MLB draught, Nootbaar, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":419672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[5739,5740,5738,5737],"class_list":["post-419670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","tag-japans-pepper-grinder-celebration","tag-japans-pepper-grinder-celebration-ohtani","tag-shohei-ohtani-world-baseball-classic","tag-world-baseball-classic"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}