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- Updated: May 14, 2016
WASHINGTON — Over the final two months of the 2015 season, Marlins left fielder Christian Yelich came to bat 182 times and hit one home run. This year, in only 148 plate appearances, the outfielder has already gone deep five times.
Yelich’s home run off Stephen Strasburg in the first inning of Saturday’s 6-4 Game 1 doubleheader loss to the Nationals was the latest example of the 24-year-old’s growing power. He is only two homers short of his total from all of last season and only four off his career high of nine, set in 2014.
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Manager Don Mattingly said the outfielder’s …
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