Origin of Tigers' new extra base hit celebration for 2025 revealed

The Tigers still don't have a home run celebration to follow the hockey goal from 2023 and pizza spear from 2024. Spencer Torkelson (the mastermind behind those two celebrations) blamed the lack of a celebration this year on catcher Jake Rogers, who was tasked with coming up with one for 2025 but hasn't seemed to land on one he likes yet.

However, the Tigers do have a signal to send back to the dugout when they get an extra-base hit. It popped up during their second series of the year against the Mariners, but play-by-play announcer Jason Benetti and sideline reporter Daniella Bruce provided an explanation for it during the broadcast on Wednesday, as the Tigers were wrapping up their series against the Yankees.

Dillon Dingler doubled on a ground ball to left field in the bottom of the seventh, and after he coasted in to second, he raised his arms and made a sawing motion back at the dugout. Bruce explained that it's a reference to Bone Saw McGraw from Tobey Maguire and Sam Raimi's first Spider-Man movie, played by wrestler "Macho Man" Randy Savage, and inspired by new Tigers reliever Tommy Kahnle, who wore a Macho Man shirt into the clubhouse.

Tigers debut new Spider-man inspired extra-base hit celebration thanks to new reliever Tommy Kahnle

Dingler and Zach McKinstry were the only two Tigers who were able to whip out the new celly on Wednesday – Dingler with a double and McKinstry with a triple and a double, the latter of which scored two runs in the bottom of the ninth. But Torkelson also got to use it during the second game of the series when he hit a ground-rule double.

The Tigers hit five homers during the series and some got use out of the celebration when they rounded third, but they're still in need of a new way to congratulate hitters when they get to the dugout. To be fair to Rogers, the hockey and pizza celebrations are going to be hard to top. They shouldn't force it, but fans will be eager to deconstruct and figure out the origin of whatever they do end up coming up with.