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Watch: Syndergaard bests Colon, hits 2 homers

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Move over, Big Sexy.

Four days after Bartolo Colon shocked the world with his miraculous home run, his teammate Noah Syndergaard decided to get in on the long-ball fun himself. In the third inning of Wednesday's game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, the man they call "Thor" wielded his mighty bat and powered Kenta Maeda's offering 407 feet into the Los Angeles night at Dodger Stadium for his second career homer.

Then, in the fifth inning with two men on, Syndergaard decided to take Maeda over the wall in left field. Just for variety, you know.

In the sixth inning he came to the plate again, this time with the bases loaded, looking for the first three-home run game by a pitcher since Jim Tobin in 1942. Syndergaard got his fastball right away from Chris Hatcher, and put a scare into everyone when he yanked it foul into the third deck.

Syndergaard is the 66th pitcher to have a multi-homer game, and the first to do so since Micah Owings in 2007. He's just the second Mets hurler to homer twice in a game, joining Walt Terrell in 1983.

(Videos courtesy: MLB.com)

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