Some pitchers now demonstrably react after striking out opposing hitters, to varying degrees.Mets reliever Jefry Yan being the most prominent example.
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This content was created by a team that works independently from the FOX newsroom.How you feel about this can relate to your age, the generation you grew up watching, or willingness to change with the times.But there are celebrations, and then there are celebrations.
Monday night, in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series between the Tampa Bay Rays and Cleveland Guardians, we had the latter.RAYS PUNCH THEIR TICKET TO THE WORLD SERIES, TAKING DOWN GUARDIANS IN GAME 6 TO SET UP SERIES WITH BREWERSTampa Bay Rays' Junior Caminero celebrates a two-run home run against the Cleveland Guardians during the seventh inning in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series baseball game in St.Petersburg, Fla., Monday, Oct.
19, 2026.(AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)Needing a win to get to the World Series, the Rays were up 3-1 in the bottom of the seventh inning, facing Cleveland's best reliever, Cade Smith.
Caminero came up with a runner at first and nobody out, crushing a line drive to left that hit the foul pole for a two-run homer.A huge moment for the 23-year-old second-year player that put his team one step closer to a championship.And Caminero enjoyed it.
Really, really enjoyed it.At nearly 39 seconds, it was the second-slowest home run trot in the Statcast tracking era, per MLB.com's Sarah Lang.39 seconds! To run the bases.
And it's not just Caminero.In game two of the NLCS between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Milwaukee Brewers, catcher William Contreras hit a game-tying home run in the bottom of the fifth and, again, admired it and took an extraordinary amount of time to get around t...