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In August against the Boston Red Sox, Sanó uncorked a 495-foot cannon deep into the night at Fenway Park. We can only imagine how far the ball would have traveled if this moment happened at Coors Field. The definition of a frozen rope Jim Thome’s dinger on July 3, 1999, is one to remember. In the second game of a doubleheader, Thomas took a 3-1 pitch and sent it towering to left-center and it didn’t stay in the stadium long. After bouncing once on the concourse, it fell onto the street as a souvenir that holds a place in MLB history. Nomar Mazara, once one of the top prospects in MLB, hasn’t quite lived up to the hype.
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. "Yeah I always hit home runs, but I prided myself that at every level I played, I hit for average," Meyer said.
Consecutive home runs by one batter
With this feat, Tatís also set a Major League record with 8 RBI in one inning. Nicknames for a home run include "homer", "round tripper", "four-bagger", "big fly", "dinger", "long ball", "jack", "shot"/"moon shot", "bomb", and "blast", while a player hitting a home run may be said to have "gone deep" or "gone yard". Fort Wayne, Ind. – Ruth’s barnstorming team traveled to Fort Wayne shortly after the Yankees won the 1927 World Series. The Babe cranked an exhibition game dinger there that traveled over the left-center field fence and into a moving train.
A home run cycle has never occurred in MLB, which has only had 18 instances of a player hitting four home runs in a game. The other was accomplished by Chandler Redmond of the Springfield Cardinals, of the Texas League in a game against the Amarillo Sod Poodles on August 10, 2022. Bases on balls do not count as at-bats, and Ted Williams holds the record for consecutive home runs across the most games, four in four games played, during September 17–22, 1957, for the Red Sox. All in all, he had four walks interspersed among his four homers. A leadoff home run is a home run hit by the first batter of a team, the leadoff hitter of the first inning of the game. In MLB, Rickey Henderson holds the career record with 81 lead-off home runs.
15 8. Mark McGwire - 523 Feet
Accurately measuring those moonshots isn't much easier. This clout to the left-center concourse at Yankee Stadium, Judge's 52nd homer of the season, inspired "M-V-P" chants from the Bronx faithful. It was also Judge's 33rd homer that year at the House That Ruth Built, eclipsing the franchise record set by the Bambino himself back in 1921. Few people on the planet can describe the feeling of hitting a ball so far that even the camera operators have trouble tracking its flight.
"I think we like seeing it fly like that, especially if it's our guys hitting it," Marlins manager Don Mattingly told MLB.com. Looking ahead to 2022, MLB free agency is something to keep in mind. If a slugger like Jorge Soler signs with the Colorado Rockies, we’ve seen him crush baseballs out of the yard. So, maybe we see one of the longest home runs ever this upcoming season.
Josh Gibson, Homestead Grays catcher – 580 feet, Yankee Stadium
The ball soared out of Wrigley Field and landed on the rooftop of a building across the street. According to Statcast, someone soon to follow topped Mike Piazza's 496-foot homer from Sept. 26, 1997, as the longest home run in Coors Field history. There's no video evidence or official measurement of his monumental feat, but Negro League star Josh Gibson allegedly smacked a home run580 feetout of Yankee Stadium on June 3, 1937. This would put him in the feasible discussion for the longest round-tripper ever. Mickey Mantle hit a 643-foot homer according to the Guinness Book of World Records. As with Darryl Strawberry’s record-breaking hit, Reggie Jackson’s ball was obstructed by the venue and the full reach of the hit had to be calculated.
But simple measurements, ballpark dimensions and first-hand accounts help us get a look at the longest MLB home runs since the game began. Historian Mark Gallagher estimated that the home run Mantle hit in September of 1960 at Tiger Stadium traveled a whopping 643 feet. The ball actually sailed right over the right field roof of the ballpark, which is mind-boggling to contemplate. This dinger off the bat of ‘The Mick’ went an estimated 140 feet further than the 15th longest home run on this list, which makes it that much more impressive. While launch speed is obviously a hugely important part of how far a ball goes, it's also about angle, and it's also about environment, and it's especially about how all three interact.
Further, the rules once stipulated that an over-the-fence home run in a sudden-victory situation would only count for as many bases as was necessary to "force" the winning run home. For example, if a team trailed by two runs with the bases loaded, and the batter hit a fair ball over the fence, it only counted as a triple, because the runner immediately ahead of him had technically already scored the game-winning run. That rule was changed in the 1920s as home runs became increasingly frequent and popular. Babe Ruth's career total of 714 would have been one higher had that rule not been in effect in the early part of his career. This is a list of some of the records relating to home runs hit in baseball games played in the Major Leagues.
A player 6 feet 8 inches tall would have a swing arc about 15 percent longer than Derek Bell’s for the same given bat size. This translates to a bat speed of 109 mph based on arc size alone. Batters such as Babe Ruth and Rogers Hornsby took full advantage of rules changes that were instituted during the 1920s, particularly prohibition of the spitball, and the requirement that balls be replaced when worn or dirty. These changes resulted in the baseball being easier to see and hit, and easier to hit out of the park. Meanwhile, as the game's popularity boomed, more outfield seating was built, shrinking the size of the outfield and increasing the chances of a long fly ball resulting in a home run. The teams with the sluggers, typified by the New York Yankees, became the championship teams, and other teams had to change their focus from the "inside game" to the "power game" in order to keep up.
Here are the longest homers Statcast has tracked since Opening Day of the 2015 season. Stanton is the best power hitter in MLB today, there’s no question about it. 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.
Because the danger to pitchers would be far too great, it’s likely that baseball’s rules or equipment would be changed before a ball ever flew that far. WE NOW HAVE everything we need to calculate the perfection point for the longest ball it’s possible for a human batter to hit. It involves a series of differential equations developed by Robert Adair for his book The Physics of Baseball. If he’s going to hit a home run, he has to swing very hard, and as every golfer, tennis player, and place-kicker knows, the harder you try to hit, the tougher it is to hit with accuracy. It takes the first 100 just for the batter to see the ball in free flight and get an image of it to his brain.
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