You possibly can take Rhys Hoskins away from the NL East, however there are nonetheless loads of onerous emotions between him and the New York Mets. They ignited these emotions once more on Friday afternoon in a play at second base that resulted in each benches briefly emptying.
It began when Hoskins, now taking part in for the Milwaukee Brewers, took a tough slide into second base to attempt to break up a double play. He slid into Mets second basemen Jeff McNeil, took out his leg, and knocked him to the bottom.Â
This resulted in McNeil screaming at Hoskins and gesturing towards him whereas he remained on the bottom.Â
The pure follow-up to that was the benches emptying and Hoskins mocking the Mets by pretending to wipe a tear away from his eyes and making a baby-crying gesture. Was it mature? No. Was it humorous? Completely.Â
Watch all of it unfold right here.