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Watch: Bautista epically pimps game-tying, 9th-inning blast

Joe Nicholson / USA TODAY Sports / Reuters

Last autumn, he unleashed The Bat Flip on the baseball world. On Wednesday afternoon, in the thick of a pennant race, Toronto Blue Jays star Jose Bautista whipped out The Backwards Stroll.

With the Blue Jays down to their second-last out in Wednesday's series finale at Safeco Field, in front of a partisan crowd comprised largely of Canadians, the 35-year-old with the penchant for late-game heroics delivered by smashing a mammoth, game-tying solo shot off Seattle Mariners closer Edwin Diaz that he couldn't help but stylize.

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(Video courtesy: MLB.com)

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