One of the spectacular facets of some skilled baseball gamers is their skill to memorize distinctive, elaborate handshakes with their whole roster, as even one secret handshake is troublesome sufficient to grasp, not to mention 25 or extra concurrently.
After centuries of secret handshakes, it’s additionally not simple to prepare dinner up a singular one lately, however Atlanta Braves star first baseman Matt Olson and teammate Orlando Arcia cooked up a easy, efficient, and barely violent secret handshake that went viral just lately.
WSB TV’s Alison Mastrangelo shared a clip of Olson and Arcia’s handshake that confirmed the 2 doing a easy movement pointing to one another’s eyes to get locked in, after which instantly slapping one another throughout the face in unison earlier than strolling away.
The Arcia Olson handshake 😂⬇️ pic.twitter.com/tTq2c3Ldz3
We as followers usually wrestle with giving folks their flowers within the second, as an alternative ready for years down the highway when gamers have both retired or handed on, and it’s a disgrace as a result of all of us should be extra current and study to understand greatness when we now have the pleasure of seeing it reside.
Olson hasn’t been pretty much as good this season as he was final 12 months when he hit 54 homers and drove in 139 runs for a .993 OPS, as he at the moment has simply 9 homers and a .775 OPS.
With Ronald Acuna Jr. gone for the 12 months resulting from a torn ACL as soon as once more, it has been a tricky week to be a Braves fan, and hopefully, issues like this might help preserve the vibes excessive.
Arcia may additionally have to slap Olson just a bit more durable to get him going extra on the plate.