José Bautista, whose playoff house run — and the bat turn that adopted — cemented him in Toronto Blue Jays historical past, has signed a one-day pledge to surrender as a member of the group with which he performed 10 seasons.

Bautista, 42, leaves the sport as a six-time All-Megastar and a .247 profession batting reasonable with 344 house runs and 975 RBIs. He performed 15 seasons and donned the jersey of 8 franchises alongside the way in which, nevertheless it used to be his pace with Toronto for which “Joey Bats” can be remembered and why his title is being added to the group’s Stage of Excellence on the Rogers Centre on Saturday.

His tiebreaking three-run house run within the 7th inning of a deciding Recreation 5 of the 2015 American League Divisional Layout towards the Texas Rangers used to be capped via a memorable turn of the bat prior to he began rounding the bases in entrance of a loud Toronto society.

“I kind of blacked out after the swing, hearing the roar of the crowd and the emotion of the moment,” Bautista advised ESPN in 2021. “I don’t really recall anything in particular until I was catching my breath back at the bench.

It was kind of weird, because I wasn’t a notorious bat-flipper. I might have done it two or three times in my whole career, but now I’m kind of known for that, so that’s kind of weird.”