Trevor Bauer celebrated striking out Christian Yelich with a Conor McGregor 'strut' off the mound

BarDown Staff

MLB

The Cincinnati Reds are in the thick of a crazy playoff race in the National League with less than a handful of games to go. A big reason why they're in this race to begin with is Trevor Bauer.

Get it trending. #BauerForCy2020 pic.twitter.com/Z08XopbUOr
— Cincinnati Reds (@Reds) September 24, 2020

Bad news for Jacob deGrom, Corbin Burnes, Yu Darvish et al: Trevor Bauer just ripped off a 7 IP, 1 ER, 10 K start on short rest.

Bauer now leads the National League in ERA and strikeouts and is almost certainly the Cy Young favorite. Though there's still time for that to change.
— Anthony DiComo (@AnthonyDiComo) September 24, 2020

Wednesday night, Bauer started on short rest against the Brewers and tossed another gem to not only strengthen his CY Young case, but give the Reds their 9th win in 11 games. Bauer's dominance was highlighted by one particular at bat when he got reigning NL MVP Christian Yelich to strike out and busted out the Conor McGregor strut to celebrate while walking off the mound.

Trevor Bauer, Sadistic 12th K.

Nearly fields his own dropped 3rd strike...

And then Conor McGregor struts to the dugout. 😂 pic.twitter.com/UUZ6LLy41B
— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) September 24, 2020

Strut your stuff. @BauerOutage pic.twitter.com/CG0YgItmyp
— Cincinnati Reds (@Reds) September 24, 2020

Bauer is feeling it right now and with just 3 games to go, he's hoping he'll get another chance to pitch again this year, but in the playoffs.

On short rest, @BauerOutage made his case for NL Cy Young. 🔥

(MLB x @NikeDiamond) pic.twitter.com/EDtt7OzZMo
— MLB (@MLB) September 24, 2020

GET HYPED @BauerOutage!!! pic.twitter.com/jPwStTbdFU
— Cincinnati Reds (@Reds) September 24, 2020

Trevor Bauer's 7th, 8th and 9th Ks. 🔥

K Yells and Staredowns (audio)

Getting out of a 1st and 3rd situation/0 outs. pic.twitter.com/pczwJZpDpi
— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) September 24, 2020

(H/T: Rod Friedman)