'Locked-in' Lombard makes more history with 3-hit postseason debut
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What happened
NEW YORK -- A little while after the Trade Deadline, George Lombard Jr.’s first career hit left his bat with an exit velocity of 100.2 mph, landed nearly 400 feet away in the left-center-field bleachers and made him the third-youngest player in Yankees history to homer in his MLB debut.
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