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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?
"There's no way I'm going to score from first if that ball hits the wall," Raul Ibanez said. "I doubt if there is any human alive who's going to score on that ball, as hard as he ...