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Miguel Sano found lightning both in his bat and outside the field on one Home Run Derby blast

By Andrew Mearns

Miguel Sano might have finished runner-up to Aaron Judge at the T-Mobile Home Run Derby on Monday, but he did produce perhaps the coolest GIF of the night during one of his 32 long balls.
Sano's first homer of the finals matchup against Judge was a 447-foot moonshot to left-center field that descended just as lightning struck. It was quite visible through the clear back windows of Marlins Park, creating an apt metaphor for what he just did to the ball:

The atmosphere was apparently electric in more than ways than one on Monday night.

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