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His moonshot was an estimated 505 feet, one of his 26 on the season upon his return from missing the previous year due to injury. It would be the last big blast we would see from Mo, but boy was she a rocket. However, as the game has grown and evolved, so have the players, the styles and the love of the game. The ‘steroid era’ has made us question a lot of the purity of the game, as well as the credit that we should be giving the athletes who were proven to have cheated.
When Alvarez hit the shot on Monday against the Oakland Athletics, he became only the second player in the park's 19-year history to do so. Interestingly, the hardest baseball hit in 2021 didn’t even leave the infield. New York Yankees outfielder Giancarlo Stanton lined a ball off the bat at 122.2 mph this season, but it went directly into the second baseman’s glove and was turned into a double play. It comes as no surprise that of the 10 farthest home runs hit, five happened at Coors Field. It’s the most hitter-friendly MLB park thanks to the thin air helping make baseballs fly out of the stadium.
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Alvarez is also the first Astro to have his home run soar to that area of the park. The first player to ever launch home run into third deck was Milwaukee Brewers right fielder Jeromy Burnitz in 2000. The event did happen more than 34 years ago, so it's hard to fault Tennyson for not remembering exactly how he got the number 582.
Future Hall of Famer Greg Maddux was pitching for the Chicago Cubs. Not only is this homer, which banged off the facade of the upper deck in Oakland, the longest home run of the Astros season, it's the longest of Alvarez's career thus far. Alvarez hit three homers in this 5-0 win over Oakland and each shot was so monstrous, they're all on this list, including this one that landed near the Phillips 66 pump. The Astros catcher hit two of his 15 home runs this day against the Angels, including this blast, which came on the first pitch of the sixth inning.
15 5. Dave Kingman - 530 Feet
Meyer reared back and connected with a breaking ball from reliever Mike Murphy -- sending it deep into the Denver darkness. The ball kept going up and up until it hit halfway up the second deck of Mile High Stadium -- a place very few baseballs go. If you watch the video, the camera can't even follow it that high. Babe Ruth had a bunch of moonshots over his baseball-wrecking career. Some ended up in alligator ponds, some cleared fence after fence after fence until there were no more fences left to clear.
However, the 6-foot-2 slugger made history with the longest home run ever officially recorded through StatCast. For comparison, the longest MLB home run in traveled 499 feet and the official record for the farthest home run ever hit in MLB history went 505 feet . If you go off non-StatCast data, though, it’s not even the longest home run in minor league history . Unlike some other mammoth homers in baseball history, there are only a handful of stories on Meyer's blast -- the longest ever according to the internet. He seems content with that -- helping out a little bit at MLB clinics on the island and really not talking about his baseball career unless somebody finds out about it.
Willie Stargell, Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder – 535 feet, Olympic Stadium
Not being a fan of baseball, he also said he was just focused on getting an exact measurement and not taking home run history into consideration at all. He wasn't trying to "memorialize it." He did say a University of Colorado professor called him shortly after the measurements came out and agreed with how he came up with the distance. Meyer ended up hitting three home runs that night with Ripken's lumber. He then used it the next day, and in his first plate appearance, it broke. A perfect swing, the high altitude and maybe, just maybe, the bat he used all played a role.
There's the unbelievable power of Wily Mo Peña or Glenallen Hill. Statcast has given us a whole new tool to answer that question, thanks to the tracking technology at every MLB ballpark. Your favorite teams, topics, and players all on your favorite mobile devices. Build your custom FanSided Daily email newsletter with news and analysis on All MLB and all your favorite sports teams, TV shows, and more. What’s the longest home run in every MLB stadium heading into the 2022 season? Matt has been a sports editor/writer at the Chronicle since 2015.
Longest home run in T-Mobile Park history
That 23-foot wall in right is the fifth-tallest in MLB and serves as a great example of how much the aerodynamics of the baseball can impact the sport. Before balls mysteriously began flying farther, lefties had a very hard time lifting homers over that high boundary. Lefties Eddie Rosario and Max Kepler hit 32 and 36, respectively. The slugger launched a classic blast off the Indians' Roberto Hernandez in an 11-7 victory over Cleveland, clearing the loading dock in left-center field.
Here are the deepest home runs hit from the 2021 MLB season, with videos from MLB.com. Below, we’ll look at some of the longest home runs hit in MLB history, both documented and rumored. The media descended on Mile High the next day -- wanting to talk to the man who reached heights never reached before.
On June 3, 2001, Boston Red Sox left fielder Manny Ramirez hit a 491-foot blast to left field off of Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Chris Carpenter. San Diego Padres Franmil Reyes hit a 479-foot home run on June 5, 2018, against Atlanta Braves pitcher Luke Jackson. Pittsburgh Pirates left fielder Willie Stargell hit a 507-foot home run to right field on August 5, 1969. The home run cleared the right-field pavilion, hitting a bus outside the stadium.
Adam Dunn hit 462 home runs in his career, earning a reputation as one of the best home-run threats during his era. On Aug. 10, 2004, in a matchup against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Dunn delivered a moment he’ll never forget. In what remains the longest home run ever at Great American Ball Park, the baseball rocketed out and finished with an estimated distance of 535 feet. Cedeno, a 23-year-old with the Diamondbacks’ Double-A affiliate, isn’t one of the club’s top 40 prospects .
The Astros clocked an impressive six home runs in their 15-0 domination over the A's. The Astros wasted no time honoring Alvarez's home run, and covered the seat located in the first row of section 337 in orange on Tuesday. But it is one giant sea of green until you get to that section, which now has a seat wrapped in orange vinyl and sticks out to document the homer.
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