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Ceddanne Rafaela may just be thanking his lucky stars he plays his home games at Fenway Park.

Rafaela used Pesky's Pole to his advantage on Wednesday afternoon to lift his Boston Red Sox to an 11-9 victory over the Los Angeles Angels.

On the first pitch he saw in the bottom of the ninth, a 97-mph fastball, Rafaela swung and flew one down the right field line.

But with the foul pole just 302 feet from home plate, it was enough to be a walk-off two-run homer.

The ball traveled just 308 feet, the shortest walk-off shot in the Statcast era (since 2015). Obviously, it would only have been a home run at Fenway.

The three shortest home runs ever tracked by Statcast have all been at Fenway Park, and Rafaela's shot is the thir

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