Astros first baseman Yuli Gurriel has completed his MLB-mandated sensitivity training after he made a racist gesture in reference to Yu Darvish during the World Series.
“It went really well,” Gurriel told reporters this weekend through an interpreter. “I learned a lot. There was a lot of things I didn't know when I came to this country, and I think sensitivity training was really beneficial in a lot of different areas, just helping me acclimate to life in the U.S. It was really beneficial.”
The course was seven or eight hours long, Gurriel said.
Gurriel hit a home run off Darvish, then of the Dodgers, during Game 3 of the World Series and then pulled at the corners of his eyes while apparently saying “Chinito.