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Yoenis Cespedes swung so hard he fell down, dusted himself off, then homered 3 times in 4 ABs

Yoenis Céspedes is action personified. His swing, bright-yellow sleeve, outfield throws, even his cars combine to make the human equivalent of a "Fast and the Furious" movie. He put all of that on display in one glorious at-bat against the Phillies on Tuesday night
Facing Clay Bucholz in the top of the first, Cespedes corkscrewed himself straight into a sitting position on the first pitch of the at-bat. After fouling off a curveball to go down 0-2, the man of action blasted Buchholz's fastball to dead center field. 

Statcast™ may have measured the ball at 105 mph off the bat, but the sheer joy Cespedes created in one plate appearance? That's immeasurable.
Yo fouled out in his next at-bat, but then, in the fourth inning, he went deep again: 

And just to fully make sure we knew the whiff and fall was a fluke, he decided to hit another dinger in the fifth:

Cespedes is the fifth active player to have three homers at Citizens Bank Park -- joining José Reyes, Charlie Blackmon, Ryan Braun and Jayson Werth -- and is the first Mets player with multiple three-homer games (he did it in 2015). The exit velocities were also very nice:

And here's a look at all three in one magical GIF:

Cespedes finished the night with four hits and five RBIs and, along with his teammates, hit SEVEN total homers against Philadelphia pitching. The Mets won by a final score of 14-4.

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