One of the more legit brawls we’ve seen in baseball went down in the eighth inning between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Texas Rangers Sunday afternoon, and so ESPN brought in boxing analyst Teddy Atlas to break it all down for viewers.. The Rangers won’t be facing the Jays for the rest of the regular season, and they waited until Jose Bautista’s final at-bat to plunk him in retribution for his epic bat flip in the divisional series last year. After getting hit, Bautista went in hard on second baseman Rougned Odor to break up a double play, and then the two started dancing.
So what did Atlas see? On Odor: “He’s probably been in the gym before because it wasn’t a bad punch.” Atlas also said he had “good form, especially compared to most of those athletes like the NBA players who, quite honestly, most of the time look like they’re doing the doggie paddle in the pool.”
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Atlas also had some praise for Bautista, and referenced Canelo Alvarez’s vicious sixth-round knockout of Amir Khan on May 7, when he said the Blue Jays slugger “showed a better chin than Khan did the other night against Canelo. Much better. Much better.”
[ESPN]
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