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- Updated: May 22, 2016
CINCINNATI — Reds’ outfielder Adam Duvall has hit his share of home runs this season, but none of them were quite like the one he hit in the fourth inning off Wade Miley in Sunday’s 5-4 loss to the Mariners.
Miley attacked Duvall early, dropping a first-pitch changeup in the strike zone to get ahead. Duvall didn’t let the next one get past him, though, and the 89 mile-per-hour fastball was pulled deep into the left-center stands, landing 457 feet from home plate, the longest home run by a Reds player this season and the 15th longest by any Major League player.
“I didn’t know that,” Duvall said of his homer’s distance. “I was just finally glad to see one fall. I feel like I hit the ball good this series but didn’t have too much to show for it. But no, I didn’t know that.”
His eighth homer of the year was a welcome reprieve from a short 0-for-7 slide Duvall had fallen into after getting a single in his first two at-bats on Friday. For Duvall, …
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