The 2023 World Baseball Classic has been an absolute blast thus far.
We’ve seen some sick bat flips, a few instances of amazing sportsmanship, and some uniforms that are both great and some that are just meh.
But we’ve got to talk about the celebrations. Because baseball needs more celebrations, and we’ve gotten some really fun ones so far whenever there’s been a big home run or RBI double or whatever. Some of these teams are taking their country names and using them to be creative.
We love to see it. Here are a bunch that we’ve seen in the opening rounds of the 2023 WBC in no particular order:
1
Italy
Team Italy’s celebration is absolutely incredible. I don’t know if there will be a better one in this tournament🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻pic.twitter.com/GGGEA2zE8r
— Jared Carrabis (@Jared_Carrabis) March 9, 2023
Italy has the best celebration in the #WorldBaseballClassic pic.twitter.com/T9MPGCqB0k
— Growing Up Italian (@GrowingUpItalia) March 10, 2023
Too good.
2
Netherlands
Big-time homers require big-time celebrations for Team Netherlands. 🎉 pic.twitter.com/8eCpBmV9l4
— World Baseball Classic (@WBCBaseball) March 9, 2023
We need an MLB team to adopt this.
3
Great Britain
The Great Britain tea celebration is elite pic.twitter.com/pc5iGE8CZj
— PointsBet Sportsbook (@PointsBetUSA) March 13, 2023
The tea sipping celebration by Great Britain is just objectively awesome.
☕️ 🫖 #WBC pic.twitter.com/6gDbnq0D3w— Joe Hughes (@VegasJoeHughes) March 12, 2023
Plus: The crown!
Tea time! 🫖
Team Great Britain secures its first #WorldBaseballClassic win ever. pic.twitter.com/cZK031Kbme
— World Baseball Classic (@WBCBaseball) March 13, 2023
A sip of tea!
4
Mexico
BREAK OUT THE HOME RUN SOMBRERO!
Joey Meneses homers AGAIN and Mexico leads USA 7-! 🇲🇽 pic.twitter.com/lzwnBHyR20
— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) March 13, 2023
The home run sombrero 🇲🇽🔥 pic.twitter.com/mrvnjPrykf
— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) March 11, 2023
The home run sombrero is fantastic.
5
Puerto Rico
2022 World Series Champion, @Christian_7_7_ showing off the “Rubio” hair as a part of team Puerto Rico’s celebration!pic.twitter.com/rdSmJvehKk
— Full Seam Ahead (@FullSeamAhead) March 11, 2023
Puerto Rico’s “Team Rubio” World Baseball Classic tradition is just awesome pic.twitter.com/S9ACvGhR2V
— Talkin’ Baseball (@TalkinBaseball_) March 11, 2023
So cool.
6
Japan
Grind the pepper! Lars Nootbaar drives in a run to give Japan a 4-0 lead!
📺: FS1 and the FOX Sports App pic.twitter.com/YghDRT5itj
— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) March 12, 2023
In his first appearance for Team Japan, Lars Nootbaar went 2-for-3 with a RBI single and run scored in an exhibition win vs. Hanshin.
He made sure to pack the pepper grinder for the trip too. pic.twitter.com/P6VhIExP2B
— St. Louis Cardinals (@Cardinals) March 6, 2023
Lars Nootbaar has been in Japan for a week and already has the entire country grinding the pepper pic.twitter.com/U6WY2GFyeO
— MLB Metrics (@MLBMetrics) March 8, 2023
Lars Nootbaar on Team Japan's Pepper Grinder Celebration – "We didn't really know what to come up with….So, I went out [and got a hit] in the first inning, we got the pepper grinder out there. And you know, we kind of stuck with it." #STLCards pic.twitter.com/j1wpg49QA3
— The Red Jacket Club (@Red_JacketClub) March 6, 2023
Thanks, Lars Nootbaar.
