The last time Blue Jays and Rangers played, a massive fight broke out
Edwin Encarnacion crushed a walk-off homer in the 11th inning of the American League Wild Card Game Tuesday night to give the Toronto Blue Jays a 5-2 victory over the Baltimore Orioles.
The win sends Toronto to the AL Division Series, where it will meet the Texas Rangers.
Ah, yes, the Blue Jays and Rangers — possibly baseball's most vicious newfound rivalry.
The last time the two clubs met was on May 15, and one of the nastiest baseball fights we've seen in some time broke out when Rougned Odor clocked Jose Bautista right in the jaw.
The cause and effect of a hard slide. https://t.co/D8GHyLBkOL
— Baseball Quotes (@BaseballQuotes1) May 15, 2016
The clubs had plenty of history leading into that game. In last year's ALDS, Bautista hit a huge homer in the seventh inning of Game 5 and followed it with an emphatic bat flip.
Fast forward to May 15 of this year, and Texas' Matt Bush drilled Bautista with a 98 mph fastball as payback. That set up a ground ball and Bautista's slide into second base, and then this massive fight:
So, yeah, we can't wait for Game 1.
