As Wily Mo Pena munched on a bowl of fruit on his way out of Seibu Dome, he tried to remember having a bigger hit than the one he had Monday against the Lions, a two-run double that accounted for the majority of his team's runs in the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks' 3-2 win over the Seibu Lions in the decisive Game 3 of the Pacific League Climax series first-stage.
He's hit plenty of balls farther than the one that sailed over Masato Kumashiro's head in left field in the fourth inning but failed to clear the wall.
Pena is a hulking 191-cm, 118-kg slugger, with monstrous power that's been on display since his MLB debut with the Cincinnati Reds in 2001. From city to city, his batting practices were the stuff of legend around the major and minor leagues, as the Dominican launched ball after ball into orbit.