WRIGLEYVILLE — If you've been watching the Cubs this season, or are just tuning in now for the postseason, you might notice something unusual.
When Cubs players get a hit, they like to stand on base and rub the top of their helmets while looking into their dugout.
Why?
It's a bit of an um, headscratcher, but its roots trace back to utility man Jonathan Herrera and infielder Starlin Castro being goofy in April.
"The real reason is it comes from Castro," Herrera told ESPN. "We were talking one day and we said something funny and he just rubbed his head real fast. I said, ‘Why do you do that?' So that day when I got on base it came natural to me to just rub my head. So now we keep doing it."
Some guys, like first baseman Anthony Rizzo, who is typically the instigator of these things, started doing it without knowing why.
"Johnny Herrera, I think, started it," Rizzo said shortly after the move debuted early in the season. "I've got to get the whole story on this, I just caught onto it. ... Obviously we took both games in Cincinnati, so we have to keep it going."
David Ross shows off the Cubs' 2015 helmet-rubbing "tradition." (Getty Images)
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