Braves All-Star Austin Riley may be mashing, but he still needs celebration lessons

Atlanta Braves All-Star third Austin Riley took a celebration lesson from one Guillermo Heredia.

Austin Riley might be the latest All-Star on the Atlanta Braves‘ roster, but even he can step up his game a bit, as he was forced to take a lesson on celebrating from the one and only, Guillermo Heredia.

After Pablo Sandoval was traded to Cleveland for a bag of baseballs and his playful panda head was forever lost in the bowels of Truist Park, Nada Humble emerged to become the Braves’ spirit animal. Blessed with a pair of swords, including a pink one, Heredia taught every single one of his teammates how to slash. But this sweet child o’ mine Riley needed a celebration lesson pronto…

After going yard at Historic Dansby Swanson Field at Nationals Park, Riley’s rounding-third chop was less than satisfactory to Heredia’s liking.

Look at the Braves’ fifth outfielder teaching Riley how to slash with the 12-6 drop of a curveball.

Welcome to the f*****g jungle, baby!

Guillermo Heredia critiques Austin Riley’s weak sauce home run chop celebration

Back in the peak of the pandemic, the Braves used to Mix It Up. But when Marcell Ozuna got all mixed up with his off-the-field issues a summer ago, the Braves didn’t know what to do. The next thing was to turn around and find out that person was Heredia. Not yet Nada Humble, the switch-hitting defensive specialist taught the players who play in front of Braves Country … how to slash.

It doesn’t require donning a top hat or pounding a fifth of Jack before you take the stage, but when you go yard as often as Riley does, you can bring the November rain en route to a World Series championship parade! Though Heredia could be gone at the trade deadline for all we know if Alex Anthopoulos gets back to wheeling and deal again, Public Enemy was nothing without Flavor Flav.

As the Braves continue to do more damage in Washington than our elected, and selected, officials, you better believe Riley is going 12-to-6 the next time he goes Whammy! with the chop. That bad boy will have the bite of a Charlie Morton curveball, plummeting faster than your cryptocurrency holdings or the metaverse real estate property some dude named Tevin Downey tried to sell you.

Atlanta looks to complete the four-game sweep in the house home to the worst team in baseball.