There is the high-five and there is the low-five. Then there’s the ‘crotch bump,” the newest and gayest way for Major League Baseball players to celebrate a home run.
We saw it on display when the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the San Diego Padres in Game 5 to clinch their series, thanks in large part to a second-inning solo home run by Kiké Hernández, who then joined teammate Gavin Lux in what one X user called “Hands down…. the gayest baseball celebration I’ve ever seen in my life.”
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The celebration was something Hernández and Lux had clearly thought through, not that we’re complaining. Hernández swaggers over to Lux, they do a quick sort-of high five and then thrust their crotches against the other in an orgasm of delight.
A comment to the X post notes: “Your argument holds up until the post game interview. He was asked something close to ‘what makes this playoff team different than the other 7-8 teams you’ve been on’ KiKi looks around and then ask ‘are we live?’ On Fox no doubt. ‘Yes we’re live.’ He looks around again ‘Cause we don’t give a f—!’”
Another X user thought this crotch grab by a Chicago Cubs player in 2019 was just as gay, and I say there’s no need to compare and the more the merrier.
The Dodgers aren’t strangers to homoerotic imagery in the playoffs. In 2019, then-Dodger outfielder Cody Bellinger talked about how the San Francisco Giants had “shoved it up our butts” in the regular season.
The Dodgers scored nine runs in their Game 1 National League Championship Series win against the New York Mets, but did not hit a home run so we will need to wait for Kiké doing his signature move again.
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