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- Updated: July 25, 2016
PITTSBURGH — During his first month in the Major Leagues, Adam Frazier has impressed. Power, however, is not an area the Pirates’ super-utility player in which has excelled.
That’s what made Frazier’s long pinch-hit homer that accounted for the winning run Sunday so unlikely.
Frazier led off the seventh inning with a 407-foot home run — his first in the Major Leagues — to right to give the Pirates the lead for good in a 5-4 victory over the Phillies.
Frazier has batted .359 through his first 21 Major League games, but he had hit only three home runs in 1,354 Minor League at-bats.
“I’ve seen him hit balls farther than you’d think he could hit them,” Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said. “He can hit a baseball, and when it’s elevated and he puts a good swing on it, it can travel a little bit.”
That’s what happened when Frazier turned on a 95-mph fastball from Edubray Ramos and lifted it well up into the seats in right field above the 21-foot wall at PNC Park.
The 5-foot, 10-inch Frazier has loomed large for the Pirates …
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