Sunday marked the two-year anniversary of the Milwaukee Brewers buying shortstop Willy Adames in a commerce from the Tampa Bay Rays.
He celebrated that by crushing an opposite-field dwelling run towards his former group after which punctuating it by copying the house run pose of his former teammate — and present Rays outfielder — Randy Arozarena.
What makes all of it even higher? Adames informed Arozarena earlier than the sport that if he hit a house run he was going to strike the pose. He adopted via on that promise.
After Adames crossed dwelling plate, he did Arozarena’s arm cross and regarded towards his former teammate with a smile. Then after returning to the Brewers dugout and placing on the group’s celebratory chessehead hat, he did the pose once more and identified to Arozarena in left subject with one other smile.
Arozarena mentioned after a recreation via an interpreter that he doesn’t thoughts Adames borrowing his pose, simply that he would like he use it towards different groups as an alternative of the Rays.
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“I imply, it’s not essentially good as a result of we ended up shedding the sport,” Arozarena mentioned through interpreter Manny Navarro. “He ought to do it when he hits a house run towards one other group.”
“He had mentioned earlier at the moment that he was going to hit a house run after which he was going to do the pose and I didn’t consider him,” Arozarena mentioned. “However clearly he hit a house run and simply posed.”
The Brewers gained Sunday’s recreation by a 6-4 margin and salvaged no less than one recreation from the collection, avoiding a sweep.
The 27-year-old Adames has was a powerful starter at shortstop for the Brewers because the commerce. The Brewers acquired Adames, together with Trevor Richards, in trade for J.P. Feyereisen and Drew Rasmussen. Rasmussen has change into a key a part of the Rays beginning pitching rotation.