Jason Chu, a rapper based in Los Angeles, was out with his wife on Friday when he saw his Twitter feed start to blow up.

Yuli Gurriel, one of the key members of the Houston Astros, had been caught by television cameras during Game 3 of the World Series making a gesture and mouthing a word with racial overtones targeting Asian Americans.



For the record: An earlier version of this article misattributed a quote to Yu Darvish. It was Yuli Gurriel who said “In Cuba and in various places, you don’t say ‘Japanese,’ you call all Asians ‘Chinitos.’ But I was in Japan and I know they are offended by that.”

After hitting a home run off the Dodgers’ Yu Darvish, Gurriel put his fingers to the sides of his face, lifted the corners of his eyes and mouthed the word “chinito,” Spanish for “Chinese boy.” Darvish, who was born in Japan, is of Japanese and Iranian descent.