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Samurai Japan catcher flies out, unleashes an epic bat flip anyway

Samurai Japan catcher flies out, does epic bat flip

Another Japan All-Star Series game, another bat flip style lesson for Yasiel Puig. Game 4's teaching came from Samurai Japan catcher Seiji Kobayashi. In his first at-bat of his first start of the Japan Series, Kobayashi made contact off MLB starter Chris Capuano and broke out this epic lumber toss:

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Unfortunately for Samurai, the drive resulted in only a long out. Bat flip notwithstanding, you could say Kobayashi, well, he was…

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