Jose Bautista slammed 288 home runs as a member of the Toronto Blue Jays but the slugger was feted on Saturday for an audacious bat flip as much as his game winning hit as his name was added to the Rogers Centre Level of Excellence.
There are only a handful of indelible Canadian sporting moments, Sidney Crosby's golden goal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, Joe Carter's walk off home run to win the 1993 World Series and Kawhi Leonard's Game Seven buzzer in the Eastern Conference semi-finals that sent the Toronto Raptors on their way to an NBA championship among them.
As the ball sailed over the left field fence, Bautista stood like a statue admiring his work before turning and violently tossing his bat in a gesture that was as much defiance as it was celebration. "There were definitely two camps, but look at today: bat flips are way more accepted across the league. Everybody loves them."
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