Gerrit Cole on Josh’s Naylor’s ‘rock the infant’ celebration: ‘Yeah. Whatever. It’s cute’

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The Cleveland Guardians and New York Yankees are wrestling for the chance to advance to the ALCS. The stakes are excessive, so when Cleveland’s Josh Naylor smacked a line drive solo shot to centre discipline to deliver his group inside one in Game 4 on Sunday, after all he was going to have fun.

Naylor, a local of Mississauga, Ont., has been doing the ‘rock the infant’ celebration a lot of the 12 months, however this efficiency might have been his most emphatic.

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Naylor additionally reportedly took it a step additional by calling Yankees pitcher Gerrit Cole his son as he rounded third base.

MLB.com’s Mandy Bell defined the background of the celebration on this tweet.

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Asked what he considered Naylor’s celebration after the Yankees’ win, Cole stated: “Yeah. Whatever. It’s cute.”

The reporter then stated: “It seems like it did bother you a bit,” to which Cole replied: ““I just was made aware of it. I didn’t see it in the moment. It wouldn’t have bothered me in the moment. It’s just kind of funny.”

Russell Westbrook popularized rocking the infant within the NBA, however the MLB is much more conservative about this type of stuff. Commenters have been both amused or aghast on social media:

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It’s not the primary time this 12 months there’s been an argument with Cole involving Canadian connections.

During the common season, Toronto Blue Jays right-hander Alek Manoah hit Aaron Judge with an errant slider.

Cole, who was not enjoying that recreation, took exception and got here out of the Yankee dugout to voice his displeasure.

His teammates intervened whereas Manoah and Judge calmly hashed issues out, however in an interview after the sport, the Blue Jays ace invited Cole to strive his luck charging the mound.