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Smoak shows that you don’t have to go long to win

BALTIMORE - Justin Smoak has hit 17 homers this season for Your Toronto Blue Jays.

Seven are of no-doubt variety travelling 400 feet or more, including a 452-foot blast off Boston Red Sox pitcher Robbie Ross at the Rogers Centre, which was his longest.

And with the game on the line in the top of the ninth inning Monday night — the tying run at third and one out — the adrenalin pumping, hands gripping the bat, the 6-foot-4, 230-pounder muscled up ...

And the Big Smoak dribbled an 0-1 pitch from reliever Brad Brach up the first base line.