This kid’s home-run celebration will make baseball purists cringe

The world of amateur baseball is increasingly bringing us outrageous home-run celebrations. That’s a byproduct of the younger generation’s never-quenched desire to stunt on social media as much as it is the Make-Baseball-Fun-Again movement.

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The most accurate display of this in recent memory comes from an eighth grader in Kennewick, Wash., who has been identified as Logan Hall. In a moment that is sure to make actual smoke come out of the ears of baseball purists, Hall hit a homer, unleashed a mega bat flip, pointed to the camera, then did the Running Man on his way to first base. And now, his celebration is going viral.

Before you blame this on Jose Bautista, Yasiel Puig and their bat-flipping ways, you have to understand this is more about getting some social-media shine than it is emulating a big leaguer. Hall did the Running Man because the Running Man Challenge is a big social media trend these days. In his Instagram post, he also tagged two accounts with millions of followers that share wild videos like this one.

And while baseball’s unwritten rules say that the kid should get a fastball in the ear his next time up for showing up his opponent, modern social-media norms say if he posts the right video of that, it could make him go viral again.

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Mike Oz is the editor of Big League Stew on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at [email protected] or follow him on Twitter! Follow @MikeOz