Ironically, the 2016 ALDS is the last playoff series won by the blue jays, while the Rangers just won the World Series. Which also secured a ring for the pitcher who hit Bautista just before that fight AND took the loss in game 3 of that ALDS…Matt Bush. That’s right. Matt Bush was on the Rangers playoff roster this year.

I was at this game, I got to walk the field before the game too because of the cub scouts event they had there that day.

Saw it on Quick Pitch the next morning. Only time in junior high that everyone was talking about baseball

This is probably the best fight to watch over and over aside Tim Anderson vs Jose remeraz

That same slide took Dustin Pedroia out of the game.

you're very underrated! great video

That was so awesome to see live

Both the bat flip and the punch should be bronze statues outside of their respective stadiums.

I had the pleasure of being at this game. Really lucky considering I used to only go to a game or two every season back then. What a memory

Great video brotha

Comment section is crawling with blue jays fan compium lol love to see it

Jose is lucky Odor had a glove on his left hand, or he gets lit up waaaay worse. That follow up shot after being wobbled by the 1st Would have knocked him out if it was a fist and not a baseball glove.

Mlb needs to let teams fight like hockey maybe then ratings would rise

THAT punch was perfect. Rougie knows and Bautista will never forget.

That punch was so cool.

You need to update it to the punch 2 starring Ramirez vs Anderson

Rougned's punch was great, but what doesn't get talked about enough is Sam Dyson's perfect sprinting spear tackle of Russell Martin. Absolutely incredible.

I remember when donning the tools of ignorance was a badge of honor. You were baseball’s badass. The leader on the field, the one who could take the shot. Guys like The Wizard, knew how to negotiate the throw to 2nd without getting his leg broke. The take-out slide and wrecking at the plate was just baseball. I miss the sport before all nerfing and whining.

I think it’s funny odor tried fighting with his glove on

"iD rAtheR gEt PuNChEd iN MaY ThaN kNoCkEd OuT iN OcToBeR" is the standard defense for Blue Jays fans after this. The funny thing is they were still knocked out and haven't won anything since

bautista wanted all the smoke till he realized he got clean lungs boy 😂

I hated Joey Batts for that exact reason. I can't stand that it's the accepted norm for self-aggrandizement in the MLB. Humility is the rare exception, no longer the norm. No more role models. AND they often take great pride in not being role models. It's all backward. He got what he deserved. No, I'm not a Texas fan. I'm a baseball fan. For 56 years.

Never changed a thing

image #4 for me

Didn't like the flip, but the slide. When I saw Bautista square up. That was it. It was satisfying

Craziest Thing About The Most Accurate Punch In The Face In MLB History Jose Bautista Should've Been More Humble, But Afterwards He Would Still Give Death stares Like A WWE Actor Wrestler For The Pettiest Reasons.

You can’t celebrate as a batter without pitchers feeling hurt

Good punch. Trained from the heal with the twist. He felt that.

JB got his in a big way. 😂

As a Jays fan I’d rather get punched in May than knocked out in October

dont mess with Texas

Gave him the ol' one nik upside the dome piece!!! 💪😎👍

Bautista just got on the HOF Ballot… Odor won’t even be mentioned

How about machados slide into pedroia that derailed his career

Rougy and Joey Bats gonna have a drink and laugh about this one day.

"the punch heard around the world" versus "the bat flip heard around the world." I dunno; one seems to have made more of a difference.

Expected this to be the Jose Ramirez Tim Anderson fight lol

This event is one of the most baffling things I've ever witnessed in baseball, in the sense that what actually happened, and what can be seen clearly in the footage, is not what fans say happened, even when narrating directly over footage of the event. Yes, Bautista's slide was late. Yes, he was squaring up. But, the slide was a response to the cowardly, pathetic, childish HBP they gave him, and he was "squaring up" in response to Odor, who pushed him, instigating the actual fight. The order of events is Bautista slides, Odor says something, Bautista walks up to Odor giving no indication he intends to do more than jaw at him, Odor pushes Bautista away amd immediately decks him before he can get his hands up. There's no honest way to see it differently. At every step in the confrontation here, the Rangers should come off as the aggressor and the party that is in the wrong. But because people already disliked Bautista and liked Odor, they make up an alternate reality where Odor is a hero and Bautista was the aggressor/villain. It's fucking crazy.

The Jose Ramirez and Tim Anderson fight was in my opinion better since somebody got knockout

It's important to note that this fight took place minutes after the Toronto Raptors advanced to their first ever ECF.

I think you are hugely overreacting to this entire event. I clearly remember this happening but I have almost never thought of this punch when the name Rougned Odor comes up. And I absolutely don’t remember where I was when this happened! This was just another fight, there have been many others just like it. Literally the only thing that makes this a little different is that Odor connected on such a solid punch, which almost never happens in baseball.

The celebrations might appeal to some fans but certainly not all. The NFL celebrations are ridiculous. An entire defense sprints to the end zone for a dumb pose after they cause a turnover, even if they’re behind by 20 points in the fourth quarter.

That unwritten rule about hitting a home run and not even enjoying the moment is the stupidest shit, The problem is this kind of BS is spreading to other Major leagues including Football and really heavy in basketball. It is really god damned soft of a pitcher to care about that one home run to that degree and then send a ball into someones back head or ribs because they got "shown up" FU.

Oh. Cito still sucks!

Bautista's slide was clean though, im not a Jays fan nor do i even like Jose Bautista. BUT.. slide was clean and fair, made some light contact with Odor. I do also think his punch was a sucker punch too. A solid one but a sucker-punch, nonetheless.

if the pitchers feared a flying bat or the batter bringing the bat to the 'discussion' at the mound, after the beaning, it might stop this low class behavior. (in the real world, beaning could be considered assualt with a deadly weapon.)

One bloke will be remembered by nobody except for throwing a cheap right hand but the other bloke will be remembered for that swing and bat flip in the post season.

Cry babies mad at a bat flip😂😂😂😂😂 Man up sissy...

Boomer control over the unwritten rules has a lot to do with these changes. I think that the retirement of Tony LaRussa was a watershed moment. He was great in the 80s and 90s, but refused to change with the times. Strangely, the steroid era helped with this. It made baseball exciting, but it also deteriorated the integrity of the game. Sometimes we forget how sacred baseball was to our nation's identity. Once the game itself was compromised by steroids, the tradition of it all began to unravel. This opened the way for things that simply weren't tolerated just one or two generations prior. For baseball to compete as a national form of sports entertainment, it needs to stay fresh and exciting. The personalities need to come out on the field and not just in front of a camera in the locker room. I will remain nostalgic about the kind of baseball I grew up with, but I am enjoying watching skilled players who clearly love the game in a way that wasn't always seen except after the last out of the WS or a no-hitter. Now we see the fun after a great play. We see it after a home run. Players are allowed to show their emotions without constant fear of retaliation. Baseball is evolving and becoming what it was meant to be. Pure Joy.