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Phillies prospect Dylan Cozens hits 3 home runs for Lehigh Valley

We have known the power of Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs outfielder Dylan Cozens is real. After all, he’s the size of two regular-sized 1980s baseball players combined. But his inability to hit left-handed pitching and huge strikeout numbers have prevented him from joining his former minor league teammates at the big league level thus far.

In the team’s 8-6 win over Syracuse in Allentown today, Cozens did something no Iron Pigs player had ever done before.

Cozens came into the game with three long balls in his first 92 plate appearances, and was hitting .