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Marcell Ozuna crushed a 468-foot homer off one of the Rays' banners at Tropicana Field

Wednesday was a banner day for Marcell Ozuna -- literally.
With his Marlins battling the Rays at Tropicana Field, Ozuna stepped up against Blake Snell and hit a homer. But this was not any homer ... it was a 468-foot rocket that actually crashed into the Rays' 2011 AL Wild Card banner flying high up in the rafters at the Trop. Above the upper deck. 
It was as majestic as it sounds, and was good for Ozuna's longest homer of the Statcast™ era and the second-longest at Tropicana Field in that span: 

If you're curious, the longest homer hit at the Trop in the Statcast™ era came from Alex Rodriguez in 2015, and was 471 feet of amazingness.

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