Watch: Bautista takes Darvish yard, Odor face-plants in next AB
Jose Bautista puts the Blue Jays ahead in the bottom of the 5th as he launches a three-run homer into the bullpen in left pic.twitter.com/qiM9g8ngQ2
— TheRenderMLB (@TheRenderMLB) May 27, 2017
There was always going to be some fanfare involved with the Texas Rangers arriving in Toronto to face the Blue Jays this weekend. Following a contentious regular-season series in 2016 that resulted in the immortal image of Rangers second baseman Rougned Odor cold-cocking Jose Bautista, tensions were understandably high.
Before the games began, Rangers manager Jeff Banister said the feud was done.
But even if that's the case, both Bautista and Odor factored into Saturday's game for different reasons. Bautista drilled a go-ahead, three-run bomb off Yu Darvish in the fifth. Then, the following inning, Odor ended the frame by ... well:
LOL ROUGNED ODOR pic.twitter.com/e3Ok0vPUth
— BP Toronto (@BProToronto) May 27, 2017
Ouch.