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These back-to-back homers prove Australia's bat flip game is ready for the World Baseball Classic

By Mike Bertha

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:

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