<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/yankees-gerrit-cole-rays-randy-arozarena');   ga('set', 'title', '‘It’s predictable’: Yankees’ Gerrit Cole reacts to Rays star Randy Arozarena’s home run celebration');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Yankees-Gerrit-Cole-Rays-Randy-Arozarena-Gerrit-Cole-Randy-Arozarena.jpg"></figure><h1>‘It’s predictable’: Yankees’ Gerrit Cole reacts to Rays star Randy Arozarena’s home run celebration</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2023-05-13T07:50:27-07:00">May 13th, 7:50am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2023-05-13T07:50:27-07:00">May 13th, 7:50am</time><address><a>Tim Capurso</a>Tim Capurso is the Lead NFL and College Football Editor at ClutchPoints while also covering a wide range of sports. Originally from a small town in New York, Tim graduated from Assumption University in Worcester, Massachusetts in 2018 with a BA in Writing and Mass Communications. He joined ClutchPoints in 2021. The lifelong New York Giants fan now resides in enemy territory, aka the heart of Eagles country, just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">MLB</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Gerrit Cole is unbothered. The New York Yankees ace, who surrendered one of his two home runs allowed on Friday to Tampa Bay Rays star Randy Arozarena in a five inning-<a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/yankees-gerrit-cole-rebounds-from-implosion-vs-rival-with-gutsy-effort/ar-AA1b89h5">no-decision</a>, was asked if the Rays outfielder’s home run celebration, in which he poses at third base before making his way home, bothered him.</p><p>Cole told reporters that “it’s predictable”, per SNY on Twitter.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Gerrit Cole was asked if he's bothered when Randy Arozarena does his pose rounding third base after his home runs:</p><p>"He does that all the time, right? It's predictable" <a href="https://t.co/696qOaU2yU">pic.twitter.com/696qOaU2yU</a></p><p>— Yankees Videos (@snyyankees) <a href="https://twitter.com/snyyankees/status/1657211310281482240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 13, 2023</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>“He does that all the time, right? It’s predictable.”</p><p>The <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/yankees-manager-aaron-boone-gets-brutally-honest-on-anthony-volpes-sluggish-start-to-2023-season">Yankees</a> ace isn’t sweating Arozarena’s celebration, saying that he “does it all the time.”</p><p>It’s not the first time an opposing player’s celebration has been the topic of discussion after he took Cole deep.</p><p>Cleveland Guardians first baseman Josh Naylor, after belting a home run off of the Yankees right-hander in the American League Division Series last year, “rocked the baby” while running around the bases, shouting that Cole was his “little fu***ng son.”</p><p>Cole was asked what he thought of the celebration after the game. The Yankees ace called it “cute.”</p><p>Clearly, Cole doesn’t take these celebrations personally- they’re of no concern to him.</p><p>What <i>should </i>be a bit concerning to Cole and the Yankees is that, after not allowing a single home run through his first seven starts of the season, the 32-year-old has served up four in his last two starts.</p><p>It should be noted that both starts have been against the Rays, who have bludgeoned opponents to the tune of a MLB-leading 244 runs scored and 79 home runs.</p><p>In other words, everyone is allowing home runs to the Rays.</p><p>Still, it’s not a trend that Cole, who has allowed a career-high 1.3 home runs per nine innings since joining the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/yankees-news-new-york-hitting-coach-doesnt-care-offensive-stats">Yankees</a>, wants to see.</p><p>As for Arozarena’s celebration?</p><p>Cole isn’t bothered by it- he expects to see it.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

‘It’s predictable’: Yankees’ Gerrit Cole reacts to Rays star Randy Arozarena’s home run celebration

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/rays-news-kevin-cash-ejected-randy-arozarena-plunked-yankees');   ga('set', 'title', 'Rays manager Kevin Cash ejected after Randy Arozarena plunked for 2nd time by Yankees');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Kevin-Cash-Randy-Arozarena-Yankees-Rays.jpg"></figure><h1>Rays manager Kevin Cash ejected after Randy Arozarena plunked for 2nd time by Yankees</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2023-05-05T17:28:51-07:00">May 5th, 5:28pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2023-05-05T17:29:42-07:00">May 5th, 5:29pm</time><address><a>Quinn Allen</a>Quinn Allen is a freelance sports journalist and full-time editor for ClutchPoints. He specializes mainly in soccer, basketball, and baseball. When Quinn isn't producing content for CP, he's writing predictions across the European soccer and NBA world for bettors at Sports Betting Dime, one of the fastest-growing sports betting sites in North America.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">MLB</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/rays-news-tampa-bay-sets-mlb-record-1939-world-series" rel="noopener">Tampa Bay Rays</a> and New York Yankees began a three-game set on Friday evening and it didn’t take long for tempers to flare. After Randy Arozarena was hit for a second time in the series opener following an early homer, manager <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/rays-news-kevin-cash-back-to-back-al-manager-of-the-year" rel="noopener">Kevin Cash</a> had seen enough, coming out to defend his player. That resulted in the <a href="https://twitter.com/MLBONFOX/status/1654638261241880578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1654638261241880578%7Ctwgr%5E05c97d72610936f590ce9496199241261ec2bc90%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwp.clutchpoints.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost-new.php" rel="noopener">skipper getting tossed</a> after the two teams exchanged some words from their respective dugouts.</p><p>Via FOX Sports MLB:</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Rays manager Kevin Cash has been ejected after both teams received warnings after Randy Arozarena was HBP in his 2nd consecutive plate appearance.</p><p>(via <a href="https://twitter.com/BallyRays?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BallyRays</a>)<a href="https://t.co/IvkPuEAFNI">pic.twitter.com/IvkPuEAFNI</a></p><p>— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) <a href="https://twitter.com/MLBONFOX/status/1654638261241880578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 6, 2023</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>It’s puzzling why Cash got tossed for simply having a conversation with one of the umpires. I mean, his superstar just got hit twice. Coincidence? I think not. Cash wanted to see Yankees reliever Albert Abreu get thrown out but instead, he just got a warning. For what it’s worth, that was the 14th ejection of Cash’s career.</p><p>There’s always been bad blood between the Rays and Yanks but this was clearly blatant. Can’t get Arozarena out? Let’s just plunk him instead. As you can see, the Cuban was visibly frustrated, too.</p><p>In the end, Tampa Bay is the best team in baseball at 26-6 while New York is barely hovering over .500. As of writing, the Rays are up 4-1 in the contest, with every one of their first three batters registering a hit thus far. Since this is only the first of a three-game set, we can certainly expect some more fireworks over the next couple of days.</p><p>After all, these organizations do not like each other and the Yankees are evidently frustrated because they’re stinking up the joint through the first month of the season, although injuries have taken their toll on the roster.</p><p>As for the Rays, they can smell their 27th win.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Rays manager Kevin Cash ejected after Randy Arozarena plunked for 2nd time by Yankees

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Notably, Mistretta covers baseball, basketball, and football. He is originally from a small town in Southern California. Mistretta graduated college with a degree in broadcast journalism from Biola University.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">MLB</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Randy Arozarena has a fanbase all to himself. Tampa Bay Rays fans who <a href="https://twitter.com/TBTimes_Rays/status/1654620337114341376" rel="noopener">sat in section 141</a> in left field behind Arozarena got a free beer, soda, or water on Friday at Tropicana Field, per Marc Topkin. Arozarena ultimately homered in the 1st inning on Friday after <a href="https://twitter.com/TBTimes_Rays/status/1654620974040469504" rel="noopener">previously saying he wanted</a> to hit a home run so the fans in “Randy Land” could drink “happily,” per Topkin as well.</p><p>“I’m hoping to hit a home run so that everybody drinks happily,” Arozarena said on Thursday.</p><p>The Rays entered Friday’s game against the New York Yankees with an <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/rays-news-tampa-bay-sets-mlb-record-1939-world-series" rel="noopener">incredible 26-6 record</a>. This Rays ball club is off to nothing short of a historic start to the 2023 campaign. When a team is playing as well as Tampa Bay is at the moment, their players feel <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/rays-news-wander-franco-sounds-viral-ball-flip-showboat-move-viral" rel="noopener">confident to do or say</a> whatever they want. They clearly believe in themselves and the results are showing to say the least.</p><p>Randy Arozarena would probably be in the AL MVP conversation if the season ended today. He came into Friday’s affair slashing an impressive .325/.391/.590 with an .891 OPS and eight (now nine following Friday’s long ball) home runs. He’d also stolen three bases for good measure. Arozarena has carried his WBC momentum, as he performed well during the tournament, into the ’23 season for Tampa Bay. The Rays are unfortunately known for having low attendance numbers, but he’s helping to draw more fans to the ball park.</p><p>The Rays are the best team in baseball right now, and they also are arguably the most fun ball club to watch.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Randy Arozarena wants to homer so Rays fans can drink ‘happily’ in ‘Randy Land’

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/world-baseball-classic-news-randy-arozarena-celebration');   ga('set', 'title', 'Randy Arozarena’s celebrity growing rampant after WBC performance');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/randy-arozarena-randy-arozarena-celebration-mexico-randy-arozarena-world-baseball-classic-world-baseball-classic-randy-arozarena-.jpg"></figure><h1>Randy Arozarena’s celebrity growing rampant after WBC performance</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2023-03-22T16:29:22-07:00">March 22nd, 4:29pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2023-03-22T16:29:22-07:00">March 22nd, 4:29pm</time><address><a>Jack Deignan</a></address><h3 class="op-kicker">MLB</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p><a href="https://clutchpoints.com/world-baseball-classic-news-randy-arozarena-stuns-twitter-with-insane-home-run-robbery-vs-japan" rel="noopener">Mexico’s Randy Arozarena</a> was the biggest star of the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/world-baseball-classic-news-wbc-must-watch-stephen-a-smith" rel="noopener">World Baseball Classic</a>. Even with a semi-final loss to the eventual champions <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/world-baseball-classic-news-shohei-ohtani-gets-100-real-epic-pregame-speech-before-japan-takes-down-usa" rel="noopener">Japan</a>, Arozarena’s celebrity is continuing to grow after the tournament. His arms-crossed celebration is making <a href="https://twitter.com/MLBONFOX/status/1638671926699909123?s=20" rel="noopener">waves across the sports world</a>.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Randy's celebration is taking over 💯🙌</p><p>(via <a href="https://twitter.com/miafishel10?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@miafishel10</a>)<a href="https://t.co/BDt6gVgW1Q">pic.twitter.com/BDt6gVgW1Q</a></p><p>— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) <a href="https://twitter.com/MLBONFOX/status/1638671926699909123?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 22, 2023</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>US National Team’s Mia Fishel does the celebration here after a goal for her club Tigres UANL Femenil. It will be exciting to watch the classic celebration spread across athletes and sports alike.</p><p>The newfound fame is not something that Arozarena is unprepared for. He has a history of stepping up in big moments on the national stage. He had one of the best postseasons in recent memory during the Tampa Bay Rays run to the World Series in 2020.</p><p>The World Baseball Classic now puts Arozarena in the spotlight on the global stage. Not forgotten with his notoriety is the fact that Arozarena played stellar baseball for Mexico.</p><p>Mexico had an unprecedented run to the semifinals, and would have had a chance at the title if it weren’t for a ninth inning rally by Japan to walk it off 6-5. They had some incredible moments in the tournament, highlighted by a dominating 11-5 win against their rivals to the North, USA.</p><p>Among other Latin American countries like Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, experts had Mexico as the earliest exist. Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic brought rosters loaded with elite talent, but it was Mexico who ultimately went the deepest into the tournament.</p><p>The World Baseball Classic will return in three years in 2026. Once it arrives, baseball fans will be anticipating the follow up effort to an incredible tournament from Randy Arozarena and Mexico.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Randy Arozarena’s celebrity growing rampant after WBC performance

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/world-baseball-classic-news-randy-arozarena-stuns-twitter-with-insane-home-run-robbery-vs-japan');   ga('set', 'title', 'Randy Arozarena stuns Twitter with insane home run robbery vs. Japan');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Randy-Arozarena-Mexico-Japan-World-Baseball-Classic.jpg"></figure><h1>Randy Arozarena stuns Twitter with insane home run robbery vs. Japan</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2023-03-20T18:04:07-07:00">March 20th, 6:04pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2023-03-20T18:05:20-07:00">March 20th, 6:05pm</time><address><a>Rexwell Villas</a>A Communications Arts graduate from the University of Santo Tomas in the Philippines, Rex claims to have JR Smith's conscience with his shot selection. He has won a basketball, a baseball, and a football championship in fantasy all within a year.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">MLB</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Team Mexico <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/world-baseball-classic-news-randy-arozarenas-hilarious-trash-talk-ahead-mexico-japan-showdown" rel="noopener">star Randy Arozarena</a> has always been one of the most exciting baseball players today, and he showed why once again <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/world-baseball-classic-odds-mexico-vs-japan-prediction-pick-how-to-watch-3-20-2023" rel="noopener">Monday night</a> when he pulled off a sensational catch to rob Team Japan of a huge home run during the fifth inning of this World Baseball Classic semifinals showdown.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">RANDY AROZARENA BRINGS ONE BACK THIS MAN IS ON ANOTHER LEVEL <a href="https://t.co/0csVmzwaYE">pic.twitter.com/0csVmzwaYE</a></p><p>— Jared Carrabis (@Jared_Carrabis) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jared_Carrabis/status/1637977037775175680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 21, 2023</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p> </p><p>“OH MY GOD RANDY AROZARENA HAS DONE IT AGAIN WHAT A CATCH!!,” FOX Sports analyst Ben Verlander bellowed on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/BenVerlander/status/1637977038320553986" rel="noopener">after witnessing</a> what Randy Arozarena just did.</p><p>“Just a casual HR robbery and pose from Randy Arozarena,” Barstool Sports <a href="https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/1637977233976426497" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>.</p><p>Twitter user @YourFriendKyle_ also had this to say: “Randy Arozarena is legit the coldest man on planet Earth right now.”</p><p>Jomboy Media tried to <a href="https://twitter.com/JomboyMedia/status/1637977313844273153" rel="noopener">put more meaning</a> to the greatness of Arozarena in the 2023 World Baseball Classic: “It’s hard to describe what Randy Arozarena has done these past couple weeks”</p><p>It could be remembered that Arozarena also had a huge defensive play in the outfield during the quarterfinal round against Puerto Rico to help preserve Mexico’s lead on its way to a 5-4 victory.</p><p>It has been quite a tournament for Arozarena and Mexico and there just seems to be no stopping him from making even more highlight plays. In fact, he made another mind-blowing catch to end the fifth inning against Japan.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="es">¡Por ahí no es!<br>Randy otra vez se queda con la pelota y se acaba la amenaza.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WorldBaseballClassic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WorldBaseballClassic</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/YoAmoElBeis?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#YoAmoElBeis</a> <a href="https://t.co/jPnrcxyV3e">pic.twitter.com/jPnrcxyV3e</a></p><p>— MLB México (@MLB_Mexico) <a href="https://twitter.com/MLB_Mexico/status/1637981089997234179?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 21, 2023</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>The winner of this Mexico versus Japan matchup will go to the championship round of the 2023 World Baseball Classic where Team USA is already waiting. That would be another great opportunity for Arozarena to come up with a magical defensive play, assuming of course that Mexico holds off Japan.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

2023 SEASON STATS
BA	HR	RBI	OPS	SB
.312	9	30	0.952	3

2023 SEASON STATS
BA	HR	RBI	OPS	SB
.312	9	30	0.952	3

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