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Mike Zunino launched a monster homer off the Budweiser sign at Rogers Centre

The Mariners busted out the bats on Thursday against the Blue Jays, as homers from Kyle Seager and Ryon Healy helped them build an 8-3 lead by the ninth inning. Having seen both Seager and Healy each belt their sixth dinger of the season, Mike Zunino decided that it was time for him to join the six-homer party as well.
Zunino was tasked with leading off the ninth against Tim Mayza, and he did not miss the first pitch:

The ball flew all the way to the Budweiser sign in left-center field, 431 feet away. It was an emphatic capper on the scoring for the night, as the Mariners won, 9-3.
That's the kind of power that Zunino provides to a lineup, and manager Scott Servais knows it. "It hit the Budweiser sign and that's a long ways," he said to MLB.com's Greg Johns. "Everybody knows the power Z has. He timed that one up."
Remarkably, that's not even close to his career-best in terms of projected home run distance. On Sep. 13, 2017, he sent one 470 feet off the Rangers' Martin Pérez:

Listen to Jordan Shusterman -- Zunino is good.

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