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Watch George Springer absolutely destroy this baseball

Springer homers off the Tropicana Field catwalk

If you haven't been following the relatively young career of Astros outfielder George Springer, you have missed quite the show.

Springer has 13 home runs -- the most of any rookie not named Jose Abreu -- and earned himself the American League Rookie of the Month Award for May.

On Friday, Springer demolished a David Price changeup into the upper-regions of Tropicana Field - clanging it off the catwalk above:

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It went very, very far:

And, interesting fact: if the catwalk weren't there, it'd still be going.

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