Surprise: Lack of Showboating
It seems the number of bat-flips and incidents of showing off has yet to rival what last season brought in.
Hoy exactamente hace un año, Jose Bautista #BatFlip!! 🇩🇴#PostSeason #OurMoment pic.twitter.com/iJn1yzas2K
— All Sport News (@All_SportNews) October 14, 2016
Bautista’s infamous bat-flip, among others, resonated throughout the game and even had basic fans wanting to replicate it.
Manny Machado also had an incident a few years back against the A’s when Fernando Abad threw at him and the Oriole’s third baseman threw the bat down the third baseline. That’s where Josh Donaldson was playing, and he’s probably the last guy you should be making advances like that towards.
The benches cleared, and you could see Donaldson’s red face in anger as he tried to get physical with Machado. This was more of a negative scenario, but it does show both sides of it.
Either way, it seems to have calmed down this season (minus the Orioles/Red Sox feud).
But if people do decide to test out their bat-flipping abilities, let’s just hope they don’t show off in front of Rougned Odor.