Venezuelan baseball player bat flips into the stratosphere following grand slam
James Dator has been covering a wide range of sports for SB Nation for over a decade, with a special focus on the NFL.
Eat your heart out, Jose Bautista. There’s a new sheriff in town. Jesús Guzmán plays for Leones del Caracas in Venezuela, and after his moonshot he decided to send his bat into space along with the ball. This bat flip is a solid 15 feet in the air, maybe more.
Now we wait to see how angry Venezuelan baseball purists get.
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