When Andrew McCutchen crushed three home runs into the Coors Field bleachers last Tuesday, he ended each trot around the bases by tipping his cap as he stepped on home plate.
Maybe you’ve noticed this ritual, and maybe not. McCutchen doesn’t really mind either way.
“It’s for my wife,” McCutchen explained afterward. “Every time I do it, it’s for her.”
The genesis of the cap-tip celebration was a scene in the film “42: The Jackie Robinson Story.” McCutchen and then-girlfriend Maria Hanslovan attended a private screening Dec. 12, 2012, at the Cinemark in Robinson, invited by Thomas Tull, chairman and CEO of Legendary Pictures and a partner in the Steelers ownership group.