These back-to-back homers prove Australia's bat flip game is ready for the World Baseball Classic
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If there's one thing we know about international baseball, it's that it's chock full of bat flips:
So it's only fitting that Australia flexed its bat flipping muscles en route to a 12-5 victory over South Africa that earned the country a berth in the 2017 World Baseball Classic. In the bottom of the fifth -- with the scored tied at 1 -- Australia's Brad Harman launched a solo home run to left field. Allan de San Miguel followed suit with a homer of his own, and he punctuated the performance with a lively bat flip (toss?), proving that the only thing better than back-to-back home runs is back-to-back home runs capped off by a bat flip: