The Unforgettable José Bautista Bat Flip Inning!

October 14, 2015: The Toronto Blue Jays rally around José Bautista's iconic Bat Flip to take the lead in the 7th inning of Game 5 of the ALDS against the Texas Rangers. The dramatic inning lasted 53 minutes as the Blue Jays would go on win the game and the series.

[JudgeDrey]

This is weird. This was a suggested video in my feed for some reason today, and the story behind this is really freaking me out!
I watched this game live with my big brother Ronnie, who passed away 2 years ago from pancreatic cancer. I'm a huge Jays fan and Ronnie was 20 times more of a fan than I was. For some reasons, we never really got along, except when it came to watching the Blue Jays.
He came over to watch that game at my place that day, which was the first time he had ever done that.
So we're watching the game and the 7th inning comes around and we go from being in a major sour mood after the Russel Martin dead ball play, to actually hugging each other for the first time when Bautista hit that 3 run homer. Just over the moon ecstatic!
I am, at this moment now, living in the apartment he used to live in. In his old room, watching this video!
And,
*Today, October 23rd 2022, would have been his 66th BIRTHDAY!!*
Happy Birthday! And Rest in Peace bro. 🙏

[dutchy]

Great to see him come back and retire with the Jays. I was sitting in the outfield about 50 yards from the ball. The place erupted like an earthquake, I swear you could feel the stadium shaking. We were all jumping up and down hugging total strangers. You would have thought we just won the World Series. I told my wife afterwards (she’s not a big sports fan) that she will likely never experience a better live moment in sports in our lifetime. What a crazy series of events. ❤

[sampilcher]

“A seventh inning you’ll never forget”

Not even Harold knew how right he would be

[duffyy]

Everything in this inning was insane. Martin at bat. Texas with the crazy errors. So much going on. You’ll never see a inning like this again ever.

[ricbarker]

The noise when he hit that homer must have been amazing in the stadium,

[jamessmith]

Could you imagine if every baseball game had this suspense and intensity?

[themotivator]

This was one of the single most amazing innings in Blue Jays history and I'll never forget it. Jose really was that guy, always gonna miss him

[anonymousanonymously]

I miss this blue jays team, these guys were exciting to watch even though they didn’t make it all the way through the playoffs, plus I remember watching this game, it was wild.

[KC-bgth]

Get in contact with Bautista, and make a documentary on this inning. It's historic.

[migueljackson]

My whole body just become one big goosebump watching that Bautista contact. Man. A homerun brought a city together.

[donaldshaw]

15:05 The moment in Toronto Blue Jays history that will be talked about for years to come.

[deuceb]

You know it's a great sports moment when the crowd is so electric that the camera is shaking.

[AngelRodriguezFritoLay]

Andrus had the toughest inning I’ve ever seen. I had forgotten about this. Biggest 1 inning team collapse ever. Odor huge mistake. Bautista was a BOSS. Thanks for posting

[robinbaker]

One of the most memorable moments of happiness I ever experience. The whole game was tense. I was tweeting from Victoria to a friend in Toronto between plays and working off the stress by cleaning anything I could find! When Bautista's bat made that sound though....everything stopped. An unmistakable sound. I will never forget that moment or the Jays team roster for that year. A moment in history had been made for me forever.

[IncredibleFulk]

Giants fan here and I remember this moment vividly.
I was at a bar on Valencia in downtown SF with a friend.
There were quite a few Blue Jays fans in the bar watching the game but were pretty quiet after the previous inning.
Then this happened and they got back into it. Then the José Bautista bat flip happened and they went bonkers.

[lessthanthreemetal]

The crowd pop for Bautista's homer is the loudest I've ever heard in any sport

[larryhammond]

I have much more empathy for the Rangers and their fans now after what happened to us this year. 3 consecutive errors to lose the game. Brutal. Just like blowing an 8-1 lead. Brutal. Sports can break your heart. Don't congratulate yourself too much for someone else's mistakes. Don't berate yourself too much for yours.

[Leroymagic]

This gives me chills to this day. One of the best moments in Jays history

[JaydenLolagne]

I left school to watch this game 😂 best game I’ve ever watched. Playoff baseball at its finest

[mannyanagnostakis]

I was there for this....and game 6 WS in epic moments in baseball and Jays history!!!