Danny Valencia obviously had a lot of fun pitching in a major league game for the first time Thursday night, and his teammates apparently had a pretty good time at his expense afterward.
He came in to pitch with two outs in the eighth inning and struck out Texas Rangers slugger Joey Gallo looking on a fastball that appeared to be well outside the strike zone, but that didn’t stop Valencia from strutting off the field like a peacock.
“We knew we were going to hear about that for a while,” manager Buck Showalter said Friday.