Boston Red Sox games are starting to look like something out of Adult Swim.
The Red Sox went viral during Friday’s contest against the St. Louis Cardinals for their strange new method of celebrating home runs. Boston shortstop Trevor Story clubbed a three-run home run off St. Louis starter Erick Fedde in the first inning to make the score 4-0 Red Sox.
Once Story returned to the dugout area, he was promptly fitted with a large green mascot head in celebration. Take a look at the video.
Red Sox fans will be familiar with that one as it was a replica head of Wally the Green Monster, the team’s official mascot. Ever since first debuting back in the 1997 season, Wally has been a mainstay in Red Sox lore and has become one of Major League Baseball’s many iconic mascots.
That said though, the Red Sox as a team have now decided to blur the lines between puppet and reality. The bizarre new homer celebration is likely here to stay too as Boston went on to score nine more runs on the day to defeat St. Louis 13-9 (easily marking a season high for the Red Sox in runs scored).
Celebratory antics and superstitions are one of the best parts of baseball, and we have already seen many other MLB teams don creative pieces of headgear in the past to celebrate home runs. But Red Sox fans with young (and easily-frightened) children may now have to think twice before putting a Boston game on television.
