The clock is ticking on the auction of Jose Bautista’s bat-flip ball and its consignor is anxious to see where it winds up. The anonymous Canadian consignor wants the ball to stay north of the border, but he has a plan to have it help baseball fans in this country if it doesn’t. Anyone who has bid on the ball before that deadline is then entitled to re-bid in a 30-minute window. Bautista’s seventh-inning home run won the ALDS for Toronto and became entrenched in Blue Jays lore when it was punctuated by his notorious bat flip. His 288 home runs are second all-time in Blue Jays franchise history behind Carlos Delgado’s 336.

Source: National Post February 01, 2019 16:30 UTC