By Stephen Hawkins, AP Sports Writer
ARLINGTON, Texas — There was Jose Bautista’s emphatic bat flip after his tiebreaking homer in the ALDS-clinching game last October, and then Rougned Odor’s punch in May that ignited a bench-clearing brawl the last time the Texas Rangers and Toronto Blue Jays played.
Now comes the rematch in another AL Division Series between teams clearly with some bad blood between them.
“I don’t think it’s fabricated,” Blue Jays outfielder Kevin Pillar said Wednesday.
“We knew it was going to happen,” Rangers shortstop Elvis Andrus said of facing Toronto again.