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Charles Curtis

Elly De La Cruz had a savage post-HR callout after Davey Martinez called for a bat check

Elly De La Cruz continues to live up to the hype, and even when an opposing team questions whether his bat is legal or not, it doesn’t faze him.

That’s what happened Wednesday night. Davey Martinez asked umps to look at the knob on the bottom of De La Cruz’s bat, questioning the legality of something covering it. It was quite a scene but the game eventually resumed.

Then? De La Cruz hit a mammoth dinger … and he turned to the Nats’ dugout and pointed at the bottom of his bat before the ball had left the yard, which was quite the response:

Martinez didn’t love those antics:

Whatever! I loved the heck out of the response, because baseball needs more of that.

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