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Article: BELTRE BELTS GAME-WINNING HOMER 11TH-INNING LINE DRIVE BARELY CLEARS WALL AS SEATTLE RALLIES PAST MINNESOTA.(Sports)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- August 26, 2008
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Byline: JOHN HICKEY P-I reporter
Adrian Beltre hit a ball as hard as any Mariner has hit one all season Monday night.
And the way the season has gone, no one would have been surprised if Beltre's 11th-inning blast off Minnesota's Jesse Crain was hit too hard.
"He crushed that ball, but it had so much topspin on it that I thought, 'Oh, man, that ball isn't going to clear the fence,' " manager Jim Riggleman said.
And if it didn't clear the fence?