What is the Dodgers dance they perform after hits?
If you’ve been watching the Los Angeles Dodgers run through the postseason to the 2024 World Series, you may have noticed a recurring dance every time the team records a base hit.
The dance, an iconic shimmy of sorts, is nothing new for the team. Los Angeles has been doing it after hits since at least last season, and in a TikTok posted by the official team account in August, shortstop Miguel Rojas explained the choreography behind the dance.
For singles, players do a hip lock while putting their own spin on it. This started as a result of the team’s strength coaches having the players do daily hip locks. For doubles, players recreate first baseman Freddie Freeman’s signature shimmy celebration with a hip lock at the end, again putting their own spin on it.
When a Dodgers player hits a home run and the team dugout is on the third-base line, they do a modified version of Freeman’s shimmy dance, as Rojas explains.
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As Rojas points out in the video, the home run celebration in particular gets a lot of usage by Shohei Ohtani, who has 54 home runs on the 2024 season.