A high school baseball player who mimicked Lars Nootbaar's signature pepper-grinding gesture was cautioned by an umpire during a game at the National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament on Saturday.
On the opening day of the 95th edition of the prestigious tournament, Kazushi Kaneko of Miyagi Prefecture's Tohoku High School gestured to his teammates by grinding his fists together after getting on base during a first-round game against Yamanashi Prefecture's Yamanashi Gakuin High School.
The first-base umpire quickly rebuked the gesture by Kaneko, who had reached base on an error, as being unsportsmanlike.
