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    Stunning Theory Explaining MLB Home-run Barrage

    by John Walters Oct 13, 2017 3 minutes
    A general view of Yankee Stadium during the game between the Texas Rangers and New York Yankees on June 25, 2017 in the Bronx borough of New York City.
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    This summer has seen no  shortfall of long balls: Entering the final week of the season, major league hitters had walloped 6,105 round-trippers, eclipsing the single-season record by nearly 10 percent. That barrage of bombastic blasts put Philadelphia Phillies rookie Rhys Hoskins at a disadvantage. Hoskins swatted 18 home runs in his first 34 games, the quickest  to that total in major league history. If this were any other year, that would be news, but in 2017 Hoskins’s feat is little more than a Philadelphia

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