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Rangers Crush Hendrickson

Rangers 6 Orioles 5

April 26, 2009|By Dan Connolly , dan.connolly@baltsun.com

"We had the right guys up there," Trembley said. "Didn't get it done."

It was practically over right after it started.

Rangers leadoff man Ian Kinsler began the barrage against Hendrickson by hitting an 88 mph fastball into the Orioles' bullpen beyond left-center field - a 410-foot shot.

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Leading off the second, Texas first baseman Chris Davis crushed one 395 feet onto the flag court in deep right for a 2-0 lead. Three batters later, Kinsler homered again, this time an 87 mph fastball that quickly landed in the left-field seats, 370 feet from home plate.

It was Kinsler's sixth multi-homer game of his career - and he achieved it by the second inning.

Andruw Jones started the third with a 402-foot homer to center for a 5-0 Texas lead.

All told, the four homers against Hendrickson traveled more than 1,500 total feet, or roughly 0.3 of a mile.

"My fastball came back to the middle of the plate on probably three of the home runs. Same thing with the curveball," Hendrickson said. "It just didn't break the way I wanted. It's no secret I got beat by the long ball today. And it was too big a deficit to come back."

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