Michigan Baseball Participant Apologizes for Cocaine Celebration on Subject

A College of Michigan baseball participant took to Instagram to apologize on Monday for performing like he was doing a line of cocaine whereas celebrating a bases-clearing triple.

Mitch Voit, a junior infielder with the Wolverines squad, hit the triple within the backside of the second inning throughout his staff’s 11-0 win over the College of Southern California on Sunday, March 16 and promptly celebrated by bending right down to the third final analysis and performing like he was snorting the chalk on the sphere.

The 20-year-old’s celebration went viral, main him to challenge an apology on social media the subsequent morning.

“I wish to apologize for my actions on third base yesterday,” Voit wrote in his apology Monday, March 17. “I made an immature resolution within the warmth of the second. The gesture I made doesn’t mirror my character, the family I used to be raised in, or the block M that I symbolize in any form of approach. I take full duty for what I did, and I’m really sorry to all those that I’ve negatively impacted by doing this.”

Voit had purpose to have fun Sunday. The previous pitcher-turned-infielder was on fireplace final week,  slashing a .667/.739/1.222 batting line over a five-game stretch, which included 12 RBIs, seven extra-base hits and a homerun. 

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Voit additionally made a number of diving defensive performs throughout Sunday’s win over USC, and he was in the end named the Large Ten Participant of the Week — the primary time in his profession he’s been honored with the weekly NCAA distinction. 

In response to Michigan Baseball’s social media posts sharing the information that Voit was named the Large Ten Participant of the Week, a number of followers joked about his viral celebration. “Don’t have fun too onerous,” one wrote. One other commenter donned him with the nickname “The Snowman,” whereas others merely responded to the information with a string of snowflake emojis.

A Milwaukee, Wisc., native, Voit has discovered success at Michigan, incomes each athletic and educational honors throughout his two and a half years in school thus far. Voit, who says he selected to go to Michigan due to its educational status, was named to the Tutorial All Large Ten staff final season, one yr after being named to the game’s Collegiate Baseball Freshman Staff in his first yr within the NCAA.

Michigan is 11-8 total this season, sitting in the course of the Large Ten rankings.