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One Phillies homer hit the player's own photo, while another went down an elevator shaft

In the second game of their doubleheader with the Marlins on Tuesday (a 7-4 loss), the Phillies hit a handful of homers -- with two of them earning special consideration thanks to some amusing and adventurous circumstances. 
It all went down in the fourth inning against Miami right-hander José Ureña. First, Nick Williams stepped up to the plate and hit a 445-foot homer to center field that came to a rest in the bullpen elevator shaft: 

A few batters later, Andrés Blanco staged an epic at-bat against Urena, running the count full before fouling off seven consecutive pitches, finally connecting on pitch No. 14 for a homer down the right-field line that crashed off his own projected face

It was a day of dingers at Citizens Bank Park, really, when you factor in what transpired in the first game (a 12-8 Marlins win). There were eight long balls in all, with five (Rhys Hoskins, Cameron Rupp, César Hernández, Tommy Joseph and Blanco) being struck by the Phillies. Oh, and Ichiro launched one farther than Giancarlo Stanton, too.
In that second game, which featured the prodigious blasts by Williams and Blanco mentioned earlier, the Phillies struck three more while Miami totaled a pair of its own (by Christian Yelich and Marcell Ozuna).
That's a lot of mashed baseballs for a single day at the ballpark. 

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