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Gibbons: Bautista ‘right guy, right time’
- Updated: September 25, 2016
TORONTO — In John Gibbons’ mind, Jose Bautista was the right man, in the right place, at the right time.
Bautista has displayed a knack of coming through for Toronto during big moments, and he was up to his old tricks on Saturday. It was his three-run shot with two outs in the eighth inning that secured a 3-0 victory over the Yankees at Rogers Centre.
The veteran slugger has been consistently getting on base all year, but there was a well-documented power outage through most of August and the first half of September. Well, the power is back, and the timing could not be better for a Toronto team that is leading the race to lock down one of two American League Wild Card spots.
“It looks like he’s heating up at the right time,” Gibbons said. “Jose, he has been known to do some things in key spots. When I was sitting there on the bench with [bench coach] DeMarlo [Hale], I mentioned that to him. ‘Right guy, right time,’ and what did he do?”
Prior to Bautista’s blast, the Blue Jays’ offense was stuck in first gear following seven shutout innings by CC Sabathia, but all it took was one swing against reliever Tyler Clippard to move back into cruise control.
According to Statcast™, Bautista’s 20th of the year was …
