Rays' Taylor Walls reenacts Donald Trump's famed 'Fight! Fight! Fight!' chant after double... but Cardinals INSIST similar celebration was 'not a political statement'

Donald Trump's caller brushwood pinch decease and his famed guidance to nan grounded shooting inspired astatine slightest 1 in-game ceremony during Sunday's MLB action. 

Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Taylor Walls mimed Trump's arm-pumping 'Fight! Fight! Fight!' chant aft nan .160 hitter made a uncommon quality astatine 2nd guidelines during Sunday's 6-4 triumph complete nan Yankees successful nan Bronx.

St. Louis Cardinals designated hitter Alec Burleson followed pinch what appeared to beryllium a much broad re-enactment.

In what was mistaken for a motion to Trump's receptor wounded astatine nan July 15 shooting, the 25-year-old slugger covered nan broadside of his look pinch 1 manus and fist pumped pinch nan different arsenic he rounded 3rd pursuing his 18th location tally of nan season.

At slightest 3 Cardinals players were seen responding successful benignant during Sunday's 6-2 triumph complete nan Braves successful Atlanta, but afterwards seasoned Matt Carpenter told nan St. Louis Post-Dispatch that nan ceremony was misinterpreted. 

'Definitely not a governmental statement,' Carpenter said. 'That is disconnected base.'

Trump famously survived an assassination effort successful Butler, Pennsylvania connected July 15.

A bystander, Corey D. Comperatore, was killed successful nan shooting, arsenic was nan shooter, who has since been identified arsenic 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks.

A long-time Yankees instrumentality and friend of nan precocious George Steinbrenner, Trump is nary alien to baseball.

'When I was 17, I loved sports,' Trump told MTV successful 2010. 'I was ever a bully jock and I played football, baseball, soccer, and I wrestled. I deliberation nan point I liked nan champion was baseball.'

Trump was truthful good, he claims, he could person played professionally.

'I was skipper of nan shot team,' Trump said. 'I was expected to beryllium a master shot player. 

'Fortunately, I decided to spell into existent property instead. I played first guidelines and I besides played catcher. I was a bully hitter and I conscionable had a bully time. Now I play golf.'

Slate's Leander Schaerlaeckens has since uncovered 9 container scores from Trump's precocious schoolhouse games, during which he went 4 for 29 astatine nan plate.

Trump said his shot profession was derailed erstwhile he attended a tryout pinch 'another young kid named Willie McCovey.'

However that declare appears to beryllium untrue. McCovey, nan precocious Hall of Famer and legendary Giants slugger, was calved successful Alabama successful 1938 – 8 years earlier Trump was calved successful Queens.