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Charles Curtis

Ranking the 8 best MLB home run celebrations of 2023, including a giant sword

Baseball should be fun.

Celebrating home runs? That should really be fun. Because home runs are cool and deserve to be celebrated.

And thank goodness we have some fantastic celebrations being used by MLB teams in 2023 after a player hits one out. We saw some similarly great ones in the World Baseball Classic, and I’m happy to see all that joy and silliness come over to the regular season.

So let’s rank the best ones we’ve seen so far — we’ve got props and generally wacky stuff from players — and we’ll revisit this later in the year if we see some more fun stuff:

8
Cincinnati Reds: The Viking costume

Sam Greene-USA TODAY Sports

It’s definitely fun but there are better ones.

7
Detroit Tigers: A Red Wings helmet and stick

Not bad!

6
Atlanta Braves: A giant hat

Getting in on the giant hat craze, I see.

5
Boston Red Sox: "Weights"

Inflatable dumbbells are kind of fun!

4
Kansas City Royals: An awesome mask

Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports

Very MF Doom-esque.

3
Los Angeles Angels: The Samurai helmet

Kiyoshi Mio-USA TODAY Sports

Now that’s how you celebrate a home run.

2
Pittsburgh Pirates: The sword

Scott Galvin-USA TODAY Sports

Pirates and a sword. How perfect!

1
Baltimore Orioles: Various antics

(AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

The home run funnel is great. I also love the water spitting as sprinklers bit.

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