Here’s the sweet secret behind Montes’ prodigious power

Lazaro Montes is 6-foot-5 and 250 pounds. He used all of it to hit a mammoth home run on Monday, carrying 474 feet into the night, the longest homer at T-Mobile Park in the Statcast era (2015). What fuels the Mariners’ larger-than-life rookie? Montes has a sweet answer that might surprise you. “Before the game, something I feel like gives me power is Nutella,” Montes said Thursday on Chatting Practice Powered by Zoom Events. “I just get like two scoops, three scoops, and I say, ‘OK. One scoop, one hit. Two scoops, two hits. Three scoops? That needs to be...