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No place like home: Giancarlo benefits from new dimensions
- Updated: April 19, 2016
MIAMI — Many assumed Giancarlo Stanton would be the last Miami player to benefit from the organization’s decision to move the center-field fences in at Marlins Park. Turns out, the All-Star slugger was the first.
Stanton home runs are typically no-doubters. But if the walls weren’t altered, the drive he hit to right-center off Tanner Roark in the fifth inning of Monday’s 6-1 win over the Nationals would not have been out.
Marlins Park adjusted from the 392-marker at the edge of the Marlins’ bullpen in right field all the way to the base of the home run sculpture in center. Stanton sent the ball into the plants that rest a few feet from the original wall.
In center field, the distance is 407 feet, after being 418 in the first four seasons at Marlins Park.
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