Watch: Odor quiets boos with homer off Sanchez
Rougned Odor did not receive the warmest of welcomes from the raucous Rogers Centre crowd. The Texas Rangers second baseman, playing in Toronto for the first time since he punched Jose Bautista and ignited a bench-clearing brawl in May, was loudly jeered by Blue Jays fans during pregame introductions, and they only got louder when he stepped to the plate.
Odor got the last laugh, though, as he launched a home run to straight-away center field off Aaron Sanchez in the fourth inning that cut Toronto's lead to 5-4 and quieted the notoriously hostile crowd. Odor tried to pump up his teammates as he returned to the dugout, hoping to spark something in the Rangers as they stare down elimination.
The homer left Odor's bat with an exit velocity of 108.8 mph, according to StatCast, which is the hardest-hit homer allowed by Sanchez this season.
For the record, no, Odor did not flip his bat.