Newest Brewers first baseman Carlos Santana had an elite walk-off celebration against Milwaukee this season
Do the Brewers also get a June 30 win as part of the deal for Carlos Santana?
Milwaukee traded for the Pirates first baseman Thursday, bringing in a player who also happened to deliver one of the more crushing blows against the Brewers this season. Santana's three-run home run into the Allegheny River against Matt Bush lifted the Pirates to an 8-7 victory June 30, punctuated by a wild celebration at home plate.
Santana, who needed 31 seconds to go from crack of the bat to a foot on the plate, strutted and danced with teammates before even crossing the dish. It was a wild scene at PNC Park.
Carlos Santana brings the @Pirates back with a #walkoff blast!
(MLB x @CapitalOne) pic.twitter.com/nXKvVDmY4F— MLB (@MLB) July 1, 2023
It might not outshine, say, Prince Fielder's coordinated "bomb" celebration in 2009, but we presume it'll make for a good laugh between Santana and his new teammates.
The moment comes with a pretty significant postscript. Bush, who allowed an RBI double with one out to former Brewer Andrew McCutchen before serving up the game-winning homer to the future Brewer with two outs, never threw another pitch for the Brewers; the 2022 trade-deadline acquisition is back with the Texas Rangers after he was released three days later.
Frustrating as the loss was, the Brewers had won the previous two games and then won the next three, including two more in Pittsburgh.
"He surprises me sometimes because he doesn't do a whole lot,” the Pirates' Andrew McCutchen said about Santana's dance afterward. “He's that quiet guy that you don't know that much about, and then something happens and you're like, 'Man, I don't know you had that in you.' He's that type of guy. It's all fun."
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