Joe Kelly Spotted Making NSFW Taunts Ahead of Astros’ Powerful Comeback Against Dodgers

Joe Kelly Really He hates the Astros. He’s not the only one who thinks so. During the Dodgers’ trip to Houston, Clayton Kershaw repeatedly told reporters that he “didn’t like coming here.” Kelly, however, seems more willing to fight than Kershaw and the rest of his teammates.

More than that, Kelly seems to want to fight. Just give him a time, a place, an opponent in an Astros uniform, and he’ll be there, fists raised.

In 2020, an incident between Kelly and then-Astro Carlos Correa led to a lip-reading video for Jomboy that racked up over five million views. Kelly was also suspended for eight games.

Kelly wasn’t a Dodger in 2017, the year LA lost the World Series to Houston and the same year identified as the start of the Astros’ complex but still inelegant sign-stealing scandal. But he was the Red Sox, and the Sox lost to the Astros in the ALDS that year.

In Game 2 of the Dodgers’ visit to Houston, Kelly was caught in the dugout yelling at Astros pitcher Ronel Blanco, and he… uh… he didn’t have anything nice to say. Unfortunately, it came just before a string of bad pitches and one of LA’s worst losses of the season.

The Dodgers led the Astros 5-0 until the bottom of the sixth inning, when Evan Phillips came in to relieve Justin Wrobleski with two outs and two men on base. It was just the second time Phillips had been brought in into the sixth inning all season, and the second time in July when he has struggled so far this month.

All Phillips had to do was retire another player for his team, but instead he gave up four straight runs to make it 5-4. Anthony Banda was called in to replace him, and Banda finally got Jon Singleton to come out to end the inning.

Things seemed to be going well, if not great, until the bottom of the eighth inning. In the meantime, Cavan Biggio hit a home run to extend the Dodgers’ lead to two runs, but the Astros tied it again. LA couldn’t get things going in its turn in the top of the ninth, and Blake Treinen got the ball to force overtime.

He didn’t. The Astros had lost the ball and Alex Bregman was the first batter on the field. He saw a pitch that was ruled a ball, then hit second 407 feet to walk Houston. The crowd went wild and the Dodgers had to leave with their heads down.

If we believe in curses or spells — and we’re baseball fans, so we do — maybe we should keep the mockery to a minimum? Kelly has every right to hate the Astros all he wants, but maybe he should be a little more discreet about it when it comes to This The Astros team, which has fought its way from one of its worst starts to a season in franchise history to the top of the AL West.