Shingo Horie had some fun on Friday at the expense of an old friend.
Horie, the translator for San Diego Padres pitcher Yu Darvish, went viral for a great moment with New York Yankees pitcher Domingo German prior to the series opener between the two teams. German was recently suspended for ten games by Major League Baseball for a foreign substance violation.
Upon seeing German, Horie conducted a fake substance check on him and jokingly pretended to throw German out of the game. Here is the video, per Yankees reporter Mike Daddino.
https://twitter.com/mike_daddino/status/1662182897401450496
It was all in good fun though as the two men have a prior history. Horie used to be with the Yankees as the translator for Masahiro Tanaka, German’s teammate from 2016-20.
The veteran German has already been checked for foreign substances many times this year. But Horie’s was probably the first one that he didn’t mind.
