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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Evan Gattis' home run exploits have helped lead the Braves to first place. (Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;With 10 home runs in his first 37 major league games, Evan Gattis has been one of the season's big surprises. The 26-year-old rookie filled in admirably for Brian McCann while the latter missed the Braves' first 30 games due to a slow comeback from shoulder surgery, and he has continued to produce in a bench role. He's homered three times in the last four games, twice as a pinch-hitter. Wednesday's homer came as a starting catcher; swinging on a 3-0 pitch, his grand slam off the Twins' Vance Worley broke the game open:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;[mlbvideo id=\"27343151\" width=\"400\" height=\"224\" /]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gattis is now hitting .256/.308/.587, making up for his lack of plate discipline (a 32/8 strikeout-to-walk ratio) with tremendous power. As noted previously, the 26-year-old Texan took a roundabout route to the majors, graduating high school in 2004 but taking time off to deal with personal issues and bouncing around the country as a cook, a valet and a ski-lift operator before being drafted by the Braves in 2010.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Or so we've been told. As it turns out, there's more to \"The Legend of El Oso Blanco.\"&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;That clip was put together by Rob Jenners, a production director at\u00A0680 The Fan, the Braves' flagship radio station. In the tradition of Chuck Norris and Matt Wieters, some fanciful facts have been used to craft his legend:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://twitter.com/RobJenners/status/337565731107512320&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"Raised by wolverines in the mountains of Tibet\u2026 in fear of dethroning the game's greatest players, he was hesitant to play professionally... One time in the middle of a game, he ran off the field to thwart an international hostage crisis\u2026 he then returned two innings later and hit a walk-off three-run shot to win the game, the kind of thing Yunel Escobar would never have done\u2026\"\nWhether or not you're a Braves fan, the three-minute clip should bring a few chuckles.&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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