Bautista: Rangers’ Odor ‘was looking for a fight’

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Toronto Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista may have served his one-game suspension, but he’s still not done talking about the incident with Texas Rangers second baseman Rougned Odor that led to him getting punched in the face on May 15.

Odor punched Bautista after the Toronto outfielder, who had reached base after being hit by a pitch from Matt Bush, slid at Odor’s legs in the midst of a double play in the top of the eighth inning of the host Rangers’ 7-6 win. Players from both teams rushed the field, and Odor shoved Bautista and then landed the punch.

“Was [Odor] out to play baseball that day? Maybe partly,” Bautista told Sports Illustrated in an article to be published Wednesday. “Part of me also thinks that he was looking for a fight.”

Bautista maintains that — while his slide was late — he didn’t intend to hurt …

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