Francisco Liriano took matters into his own hands, crushed homer off King Felix
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Although he's been slowed by injuries this season, Félix Hernández is one of the best pitchers of his generation. He's won a Cy Young, was elected to five straight All-Star Games from 2011-15 and has the third most career strikeouts among active pitchers with 2,197. He's also just 30 years old.
Francisco Liriano, opposing pitcher to King Felix in Tuesday's Mariners-Pirates game, probably knew most of these things -- but he didn't care.
Statcast™ estimated the dinger at 416 feet with an exit velocity of 105.6 mph -- the third-longest pitcher homer this year and the first King Felix has ever given up to a fellow hurler. It's also the second career homer for Liriano -- who was hitting .282 with four RBIs headed into the contest. Strangely enough, Hernandez famously hit his only big league homer (a grand slam) off of Johan Santana -- former teammate of Liriano. So, that one was for Johan! Maybe.