Marco Estrada took a shutout into the ninth inning and Jose Bautista hit a long, punctuating three-run homer as the Toronto Blue Jays opened their AL Division Series re-match with a 10-1 romp over the Texas Rangers.
Bautista, who had the emphatic bat flip after his tie-breaking homer in the ALDS clincher last October against the Rangers and got punched the last time the Blue Jays played in Texas in May, drove in four runs.
He had an RBI single in Toronto's five-run third off All-Star left-hander Cole Hamels.
Bautista added a 425-foot blast in the ninth inning and the Blue Jays slugger seemed to deliberately drop the bat softly near home plate after his second homer of this post-season.
Troy Tulowitzki hit a bases-loaded triple for the Blue Jays.
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Toronto has won four straight overall, including an 11-inning, 5-2 victory over Baltimore in the AL wild-card game Tuesday night.
