A bat flip has come to our attention.
As you can see, Cubs catcher Willson Contreras hit this ball a long way in his team's win against the White Sox on Friday night -- it spanned an estimated 377 feet -- and it was just absolute bullet. But his bat may have traveled even farther.
Some would call it excessive, as it had no chill whatsoever. We didn’t think anything could top Jose Bautista’s playoff masterpiece back in 2015, but we might stand corrected after seeing Contreras launch this poor, unsuspecting Louisville Slugger into the stratosphere. It was a grown-man bat flip.
The home run, a three-run bomb off right-hander Dylan Cease, was only Contreras’ sixth of the season and his first since Sept. 4. The Cubs' magic number to clinch the NL Central sits at one after the win. The White Sox have clinched a playoff berth but are in a slide, losing six straight to fall behind the AL Central-leading Twins.
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