The Blue Jays nearly brought designated hitter Edwin Encarnacion’s signature “Walk the Parrot” home run celebration to life on Wednesday.
After hitting a home run in the sixth inning against the Diamondbacks, Encarnacion was seen hanging out in the dugout next to Ezequiel Carrera, who had a parrot on his shoulder. At first glance, it looked like Carrera brought an exotic animal into the dugout, which would have been spectacularly absurd. However, that was clearly a stuffed parrot.
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Let’s take nothing away from Carrera. It’s way more practical to bring a fake parrot into a big-league dugout as opposed to a real parrot. I can think of about 72 scenarios in which that idea would have gone terribly wrong.
Instead, Encarnacion got to hang with a (fake) parrot after walking the parrot.
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