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Especially considering the fact that this dinger came off a breaking ball. First, we’ll talk about the longest verified home run ever, and then look at some moonshots from before and during the Statcast era. That wasn’t the case not too long ago, and the Statcast era itself only dates back to 2015. With respect to guys like Babe Ruth (who hit his fair share of no-doubters) and Mickey Mantle , we’re going to limit our list to measurements that were more verified. Reggie Jackson was famously known as Mr. October for hitting three home runs in a 1977 World Series game against the Dodgers.
This would put him in the feasible discussion for the longest round-tripper ever. Mantle’s famous baseball was actually stolen from its display case in the Yankee Stadium by a group of boys who regretted the theft and returned it. Before Strawberry broke the record, the previous longest Olympic Stadium Home Run was made by Willie Stargell at 475 feet.
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This moonshot, which did eventually land in Coors Field's third deck, didn't just give Yelich sole possession of the No. 3 spot on this list -- it also topped his previous career best by 37 feet. Mazara tops the list, but in seven seasons Statcast has measured a plethora of neck-craning shots that have to be seen to be believed. Here are the longest homers Statcast has tracked since Opening Day of the 2015 season. The Oakland Athletics outfielder stepped up to the plate against Pittsburgh Pirates hurler Dock Ellis, who according to Baseball-Reference.com entered the Midsummer Classic sporting a 2.11 ERA.
He had yielded just four homers during the first half, but Jackson took him deep for an unofficial fifth. Great American Ball Park's second season on Aug. 10, 2004, when he crushed a Jose Lima offering well beyond the fence in center field, which stands 404 feet out. Richard Keiber, a collector who obtained Kingman's moonshot outside of Wrigley Field, insisted to theChicago Tribune's Rick Talley in 2003 that 600 feet was a more accurate tally.
Josh Gibson, Homestead Grays catcher – 580 feet, Yankee Stadium
Foxx never quite measured up to Ruth, but it is remarkable that no once since Foxx has measured up to him. The other great distance hitters of that period were Lou Gehrig and Hank Greenberg, but their optimum drives fell about 50 feet short of those struck by Ruth and Foxx. It may be appropriate to cite another example of this same optical illusion.
Both in terms of average home run distance and max exit velocity, he crushes baseballs like no one else in the sport. What is the longest home run ever hit by Giancarlo Stanton? It came with the Miami Marlins in 2016, fittingly at Coors Field. The college star stepped to the plate with his team trailing 6-4 in the 7th inning, drilling an unbelievable blast that was measured at 513 feet. While it’s possible Oklahoma State gave a favorable measurement, the 513-foot homer would easily be the farthest home run in 2022 at any level of baseball.
Jim Thome
On July 21, 1915, as a rookie with the Boston Red Sox, Ruth struck a prodigious drive that sailed far over the rightfield bleachers at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis. The ball cleared the wide breadth of Grand Boulevard and landed on the sidewalk approximately 470 feet from home plate. That was the start of modern long-distance hitting, and it is a testimony to Ruth's uniqueness that he was able to set objective standards of performance that have never been surpassed. We naturally like to quantify any phenomenon that interest us. How long will it take the next Olympic champion to run the 100-meter sprint?
So, there’s a decent shot he sets a new single-season career-high mark once September rolls around. Aaron Judge didn’t just hit a then-MLB-rookie-record 52 homers during 2017. He also led the league in runs scored , walks , and strikeouts on his way to winning AL Rookie of the Year honors. Giancarlo Stanton is no stranger to hitting absolute tanks. Stanton finished the year with 27 home runs in 470 plate appearances.
Longest home run hit
Looming over baseball history as an almost mythical figure, Babe Ruth to this day remains one of the sport’s greatest power hitters. Tracking home runs was a much more difficult task in Ruth’s playing days, but his longest was purported to be 575 feet. Glenallen Hill was playing for the Cubs when he smashed a monstrous home run out of the park against the Milwaukee Brewers. It went so far as to land across the street, on the rooftops of the homes behind the left field fence. One of the longest home runs in Wrigley Field history came from a guy who had 11 that season at age 33, and who, throughout his career, was an average hitting outfielder. There’s no doubt who hit the farthest home run in MLB All-Star Game history.
The following home runs are in no particular order since the measurements are estimated and a little bit all over the place, and it’s by no means an exhaustive list. What they all have in common, though, is they were absolute tanks. The reaction from the booth to this bomb was just excellent.
Before Giancarlo Stanton was hitting home runs in Yankee Stadium, he was one of the Miami Marlins’ biggest home run threats. Putting him in the thin air of Denver’s Coors Field is sure to increase the likelihood of a long Stanton home run. On August 16, 2016, that’s exactly what happened when he hit one 504 feet. "I think we like seeing it fly like that, especially if it's our guys hitting it," Marlins manager Don Mattingly told MLB.com. "Balls with that trajectory, for a lot of guys it doesn't go out. He hits balls that just keep carrying. He hits them a long way."
McCovey scooped a low fastball as if he was swinging a pitching wedge. But the ball kept going up and up and up while slowly drifting over the outfield and then over the wall. Through 547 trips to the plate in 2021, Cron collected 28 homers, 92 RBI, and 70 runs scored. At the point of this dinger, the first baseman has slugged 27 dingers with 92 RBI, and 72 runs scored. It’s his fourth season of 20-plus homers since 2018, and he’s likely to collect just the second effort of 30-plus homers (he hit 30 with Tampa Bay in ’18). Whenever I have a hankering for a real moonshot, I usually enjoy perusing through some Adam Dunn highlights.
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