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J.T. Realmuto hit a regular home run, then decided to one-up himself with an inside-the-parker

Inside-the-park HR caps Realmuto's two-dinger day

If someone told you that a Miami Marlin had just hit an inside-the-park home run, you'd probably assume it was human blur Dee Gordon. But a catcher? I mean, sure, Kyle Schwarber has started hitting triples like it's no big thing, but the position is still more Bengie Molina than Billy Hamilton.

But Marlins backstop J.T. Realmuto has no time for your stereotypes. A former high school quarterback, he launched one deep to center field during Miami's win over the Brewers on Tuesday, and when the ball took a carom off the wall, he didn't look back: 

Realmuto HR 2

That wasn't even Realmuto's first dinger of the night -- two innings prior, he took Taylor Jungmann deep in a more conventional manner, because sprinting around the bases all the time can get pretty tiring:

Realmuto HR

Because baseball is one weird game, the longer of the two blasts was the one that didn't leave the ballpark: Statcast™ tracked the first dinger at 384 feet, but the inside-the-park home run traveled a projected 406 feet.  

Realmuto is the first catcher to hit an inside-the-park home run and a standard home run in the same game since Gary Carter back in 1980 (warning: magnificent powder blue Expos uniforms ahead): 

Carter HR

So the next time you're about to crack that joke about just how slow that catcher looks, remember that there's a little Dee Gordon in everyone. 

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