Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista sets the scene. “Let me take you inside my head for a second. It’s Game 5 of the ALDS against Texas. Do or die. Tie game, seventh inning. Two men on. Two outs.”
In an incredible piece published today in The Player’s Tribune, Bautista takes readers inside his transcendent moment from game five. In the most electrifying Blue Jays moment from the past two decades, Bautista was being himself. A representative of a baseball culture that is repeatedly, and lazily, called into question for showmanship and disrespecting the game.