Guardians outfielder Oscar Gonzalez has a fun walk-up song and has lifted Cleveland during the MLB postseason.
Gonzalez did not begin the season on the major league roster, didn’t break into the big leagues until May. He did not hit cleanup until June. He was hitting fifth Saturday when he hammered a Corey Kluber pitch deep to left field to give his upstart Guardians an unlikely win courtesy of an unlikely hero. He said this week his life hasn’t changed much because of the homer. But he has changed others’.
“There are lots of things we think about when we call up players,” Antonetti said this week. “Walk-up song is not one of them. That didn’t cross the threshold for consideration.” Some of his teammates might have been more comfortable if he had changed it. Veteran catcher Austin Hedges said many of them, particularly the few older players who hadn’t played with Gonzalez in the minors, thought it was a prank. Hedges admitted he found it shocking. He wasn’t the only one.“I thought it was terrible. I’m not going to lie. I think everyone has voiced this concern,” pitcher Triston McKenzie said with a smile. “But it worked for him. He came up and hit .
At 6-foot-4, Gonzalez isn’t exactly capable of blending in anyway. He said his teammates joke with him about the song sometimes but that he doesn’t really care if they do.
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