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Oneil Cruz breaks records with multiple hits over 120 mph while lifting Pirates past Giants in extra innings

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Oneil Cruz went off at the plate on Tuesday night.

The Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop not only forced extra innings with a clutch double in the bottom of the ninth inning at PNC Park, but he had three hits with exit velocities above 115, which had never been done before in the Statcast era. He was absolutely crushing the ball.

"I was swinging pissed off," he said after the game, via the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Jason Mackey.

Cruz opened the Pirates’ 7-6 win over the San Francisco Giants with a single in the first inning, which left his bat at an impressive 120.