Jose Bautista

Jose Bautista (Blue Jays)

5/20/12 3:46 pm

Jose Bautista stayed hot in Sunday’s loss to the Mets, going 3-for-5 with a home run and two RBI.

Bautista’s solo blast off of Dillon Gee in the third inning was his 11th of the season, and sixth in 10 games. Finally well above the Mendoza Line at .217/.333/.454, expect a prolonged wave of destruction from Toronto’s all-world right fielder.

Jose Bautista (Blue Jays)

5/17/12 9:05 pm

Jose Bautista went 2-for-4 with a home run and two RBI in Thursday’s win over the Yankees.

He improved his average to .207 and now has 10 home runs on the season. Both his RBIs came on a two-run shot off Phil Hughes in the third inning. Over his last six games Bautista has shown signs of a breakout, going 8-for-25 (.320) with five home runs and seven RBI.

Jose Bautista (Blue Jays)

5/16/12 8:59 pm

Jose Bautista hit his ninth home run in Wednesday’s win over the Yankees.

He also drew a walk and scored a pair of runs. Bautista’s bomb was a solo shot off of Hiroki Kuroda in the fifth. Bautista is still batting just .199/.325/.419, but has made his slump much easier to swallow with all the power. He should breach the Mendoza Line and remain above it for the rest of the season any day now.

Jose Bautista (Blue Jays)

5/12/12 9:18 pm

Jose Bautista continued his recent power barrage against the Twins on Saturday, blasting his eighth home run of the season in the Blue Jays 2-1 victory.

Bautista finished the night 2-for-4 with the solo shot off of P.J. Walters in the sixth inning which proved to be the difference in the game. He now has three homers in his last two games, and raised his average to .197 with the two-hit night. He’s taking much better swings as of late, and appears to be breaking out of his early season funk. Always a streaky hitter, don’t be surprised if he hits another 4-5 homers in the next week.

Jose Bautista (Blue Jays)

5/12/12 12:51 am

Jose Bautista had a great day at the plate on Friday, blasting two solo homers in a loss to the Twins.

Bautista finished the game 2-for-5 with the pair of solo shots. His average is still severely lacking at .186, but he’s now up to seven homers and 17 RBI on the season. He appears to be heating up and working his way out of his early season slump.

Jose Bautista (Mets)

5/12/12 12:20 am

Jose Bautista had a great day at the plate on Friday, blasting two solo homers in the Blue Jays loss to the Twins.

Bautista finished the game 2-for-5 with the pair of solo shots. His average is still severely lacking at .186, but he’s now up to seven homers and 17 RBI on the season. He appears to be heating up and working his way out of his early season slump.

Jose Bautista (Blue Jays)

5/4/12 11:27 pm

Jose Bautista hit his fifth homer and walked Friday versus the Angels.

Bautista’s .177 average sure isn’t much to look at, but it still comes with more walks (19) than strikeouts (17) and plenty of pop. He’ll turn it around soon.

Jose Bautista (Blue Jays)

5/3/12 4:28 am

On a night when seven of the nine starting Blue Jays recorded at least one hit, Jose Bautista had a relatively quiet 0-for-3 night against the Rangers.

He did manage to walk, score his 14th run, and register his 12th RBI. But he is now batting only .180, with zero multi-hit games since Opening Day.

Jose Bautista (Blue Jays)

4/24/12 5:37 am

Jose Bautista connected on his third homer of the years in Monday’s 4-1 victory over the Royals.

It was his only hit of the night, as the slugger is batting only .214 through his first 56 at-bats. But he has walked 14 times compared to eight strikeouts, and certainly is due for a sustained uptick in production.

Jose Bautista (Blue Jays)

4/20/12 10:52 pm

Jose Bautista went 1-for-3 with an RBI and picked up his first stolen base of the season as the Blue Jays beat the Royals 4-3 on Friday.

Bautista is off to a relatively slow start by his recent standards, only hitting .222 (10-for-45) with two homers and six RBI in the early going. He’s still one of the truly elite power hitters in the game and will assuredly get things going soon.