Julia Morales takes the Ice Bucket Challenge

As you may know, the Ice Bucket Challenge has gone viral this month, invented to raise awareness and money for ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease). Julia Morales is the first sideline reporter I've seen take the challenge.

From Julia's Youtube channel:


The video is here.

And it looks like she challenged 3 other people.

Gregorio Petit's first major league home run deserves an ice water bath, which Julia Morales dodges expertly...

29 year old Astros shortstop Gregorio Petit has so little service time that he’s still considered a rookie despite two previous cameos in the majors and a five-year wait between big league appearances before he returned to the majors last week. So he and his teammates rejoiced a bit more than usual Friday night when Petit drilled his first major-league home run to propel the Astros to a 3-1 victory over the Blue Jays at Minute Maid Park. With the score tied at 1, Petit greeted lefthanded reliever Aaron Loup with a leadoff home run into the Crawford Boxes before an appreciative crowd of 19,576 in the second game of the four-game series.

First teammate George Springer doused him with ice water, then Carlos Corporan dumped bubble gum on his head.

Photo: Karen Warren, Houston Chronicle

Photo: Karen Warren, Houston Chronicle

Photo: Karen Warren, Houston Chronicle

Photo: Karen Warren, Houston Chronicle

Here is the video:

Julia Morales get doused during interview with Jason Castro and Jose Altuve

Jason Altuve had 4 hits and stole home in the 5th inning.  Jose Altuve hit a walkoff homer in the 11th to beat the Tigers 4-3.  So of course they got a Gatorade Bath.

PHOTO BY SMILEY N. POOL/HOUSTON CHRONICLE

Leila Rahima gets doused. So does George Springer

Usually the reporter just gets some spray when a ballplayer gets doused by a cooler full of Gatorade. But in this case, George Springer got doused after his RBI single in the 11th inning propelled Houston to a 5-4 win over the Seattle Mariners. And then afterwards, there was a another cooler reserved especially for reporter Leila Rahima. Carlos Corporan, that was underhanded.

Photo: Pat Sullivan AP Photo

@leilarahimiCSN @gspringer_4 get gatorade bath after Springer's 1st career walk-off. Sorry. Credits: JPcsn Via Twitter

Photo: Pat Sullivan AP Photo

Photo: Twitter Leila Rahimi @leilarahimiCSN

Julia Morales interviews Colin McHugh during a blue Gatorade Bath

She's seen this many times before. Is this why she always seems to wear dark colors?

Photo credit: Juan DeLeon, Icon SMI

Image by Mayra Beltran, Houston Chronicle, via Associated Press

Julia Morales cannot stop laughing after this ice water bath

The Astros hit 5 home runs in support of starting pitcher Scott Feldman, who gave up one run in 7 innings.  They snapped a 3 game losing streak to beat the Los Angeles Angels, 7-4.  Julia Morales I guess avoided the ice water bath, but she couldn't stop laughing during her interview afterwards.

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Julia Morales can't avoid this cold ice water shower

During the post game interview,  Trevor Crowe and Julia Morales did not see this ice water coming at all.

Photo: Twitter Chris Peixoto

Julia Morales interviews Jarred Cosart after MLB debut

Houston Astros pitcher Jarred Cosart threw 8 scoreless innings in his major league debut, to beat the Tampa Bay Rays. So of he course he got initiated with a Gatorade Bath. Julia Morales was able to avoid it though.

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Comcast SportsNet Houston reporter Leila Rahimi get hit with Gatorade, along with Astros Brandon Barnes

OK, I'm not 100% sure WHEN this happened, but I think it occurred after this game.  Brandon Barnes came into the game in the 11th inning as a pinch runner.  And in the 12th, he whacked a walk-off ground rule double to win it.  He got a Gatorade bath and shaving cream pie for his efforts.

Reporter Leila Rahimi was a real trooper and was able to laugh about it. She is now, without question, my favorite sideline reporter ever.

The video is here.

This is from Leila's Twitter page

Photo: Theodore Crane

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