Rising Texas baseball star Jonah Williams' behavior during at-bat draws Florida fans' ire

The Florida Gators men's baseball organization opened their three-game series against the Texas Longhorns with an - success But much of the chatter ended up revolving around a Texas player's at-bat Jonah Williams a freshman at Texas appeared to spark selected discontent from the Florida faithful late in the encounter The Longhorns trailing - in the seventh inning did not stop Williams from making exuberant expressions in reaction to seemingly every pitch he saw when he was in the batter's box CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS COMTexas did have a runner on base during Williams' much-discussed at-bat If Williams drove in that runner the deficit would've been cut to six CHARLES BARKLEY CALLS NCAA A 'BUNCH OF IDIOTS AND FOOLS' AMID CURRENT NIL LANDSCAPENevertheless the Texas freshman used his time in the batter's box to pump himself up and seemingly to encourage his teammates not to give up on rallying But Williams' tactics seemed to promptly evolve from motivational to taunting Williams ultimately earned a free trip to first base after four pitches landed outside the strike zone But during his walk to first Williams tossed his bat aside and nodded his head The behavior sparked a few questions from fans and other observers considering he was not gearing up to circle the bases after a home run or any other clutch base hit Several critics even suggested Williams' dictated a response from Florida's baseball band On Saturday the second event of the series Williams stepped up to the plate and hit a bases-clearing double The hit helped lift Texas to a - accomplishment The third competition of the series is set for this afternoon Williams also plays for the Texas football gang Follow Fox News Digital s sports coverage on X and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter