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Dwight Perry

Sideline Chatter: Up, up, up and away: Orioles' Trumbo hits a high one

Elevated fastball? No kidding.

Just when you thought baseball couldn't cook up another new stat, now comes word that 6-foot-4 Orioles slugger Mark Trumbo tomahawked a pitch that was 4.62 feet above the ground for a home run _ an all-time high, so to speak, since Statcast started its pitch-tracking era in 2008.

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