Watch: Bautista homers to send Toronto crowd into frenzy
mattclapp: Jose Bautista dinger. Hello postseason. TBS MLB Playoff: Orioles at Blue Jays https://t.co/KjlCKz9boM pic.twitter.com/cHtupQkMPa
— FanSportsClips (@FanSportsClips) October 5, 2016
Last year's ALDS hero broke the ice in this year's postseason.
In Tuesday's sudden-death wild-card game between the Toronto Blue Jays and Baltimore Orioles, Jose Bautista got a Chris Tillman pitch he could handle.
Already with three career homers off the right-hander, Bautista locked in on one pitch and hit a sky-high home run over the left-field wall to give his team an early 1-0 lead.
Needless to say, the crowd went nuts as the ball left the yard:
When @JoeyBats19 goes yard, The Six goes CRAZY: https://t.co/w0o6Z34Opr #WildCard pic.twitter.com/uUGxSBWGp9
— MLB (@MLB) October 5, 2016
The blast was Bautista's fifth-career playoff homer, good for second in club history behind Joe Carter, who had six.