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Eleven players have accomplished a three-home run game in the MLB playoffs and only four have done it in the World Series. Randy Arozarena made history in the 2020 playoffs following a pandemic-shortened regular season. In just the second Derby held, at the Astrodome, Strawberry hit a ball that was said to have struck a speaker hanging from the roof, about 350 feet from the plate and 140 feet high.
Meyer was in the midst of a season that would see him hit 29 home runs in only 79 games. In a home game for the Red Sox at Fenway Park, Ramirez got around on an offering from Blue Jay left-hander Chris Michalak and made sure he didn’t miss a single piece of it. He crushed it off of the light fixture high above the green monster in left field and atop of the Coca-Cola bottles that sit just below the lights. It was his second home run of the day and one of his 41 homers in his first year in Boston. Manny’s 12 total years of 30+ home runs were no fluke, even if he had a little bit of help. Baseball has always been a sport that has been played with elements of speed and power.
In June 1987, this Minor League slugger hit one to the moon
Although it came nowhere close to 734 feet, ESPN determined an impressive true distance of 503 feet. Yet the story of his 565-foot moonshot still lives strong. While there's no definitive list of longest All-Star Game home runs, it's safe to say Reggie Jackson's 1971 blast would top it. June 9, 1946, for a dinger deemed to have traveled 502 feet.
In MLB, Rickey Henderson holds the career record with 81 lead-off home runs. Craig Biggio holds the National League career record with 53, third overall to Henderson, and Alfonso Soriano with 54. As of 2022, George Springer holds the career record among active players, with 52 leadoff home runs, which also ranked him fourth all-time.
15 8. Mark McGwire - 523 Feet
In 1987, Joey Meyer of the Triple-A Denver Zephyrs launched a moonshot into the second deck of Mile High Stadium. City of Denver engineer Jerry Tennyson was able to verify the distance of the home run at 582 feet. Mickey Mantle may have absolutely crushed every record listed above. Against the Detroit Tigers,alone he is said to have hit a 630-foot , a 643-foot and a 650-foot home run. He may have hit a 620-foot home run in 1956 against the Washington Senators. A litany of home runs have been said to have traveled farther than Ruth’s shot in Detroit.
Nomar Mazara, who played for the Rangers, held the longest home run in the Majors for that season until Stanton overshadowed him with this impressive run. The Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati isn’t a classic hitter’s field, statistically at least, but Adam Dunn sure tamed it. The Big Donkey, as he is known, hit 270 home runs for his original club, and none longer than the deep, deep bomb he drilled off a high Jose Lima fast ball in 2004. He could just have easily struck out, given his penchant for swinging freely, but the gamble paid off in a big way. There really is nothing like getting the head of the bat out on a high fastball. The Straw Man was one of the best at it, as evidenced by his dinger that hit the lights on Opening Day at Olympic Stadium in Montreal in 1988.
Most home runs by a team in one season
While this one ranks among the biggest blasts in the history books, this homer was one of the few bright spots in Vaughn’s career after leaving the Angels, to join the Mets in 2002. Despite earning an American League Most Valuable Player Award with the Angels in 1995, Vaughn’s exceptional play slowly deteriorated and by the time he was in New York, hits of any kind were few and far in between. That hit tied him with Adam Dunn for the tenth-longest home run in history at 504 feet.
On May 2, 2002, Bret Boone and Mike Cameron of the Seattle Mariners hit back-to-back home runs off starter Jon Rauch in the first inning of a game against the Chicago White Sox. In Game 3 of the 1976 NLCS, George Foster and Johnny Bench hit back-to-back homers in the last of the ninth off Ron Reed to tie the game. On April 22, 2007, the Boston Red Sox were trailing the New York Yankees 3–0 when Manny Ramirez, J. D. Drew, Mike Lowell and Jason Varitek hit consecutive home runs to put them up 4–3. They eventually went on to win the game 7–6 after a three-run home run by Mike Lowell in the bottom of the seventh inning.
15 12. Richie Sexson - 503 Feet
That usage has lessened as "walk-off home run" has gained favor. A walk-off home run is a home run hit by the home team in the bottom of the ninth inning, any extra inning, or other scheduled final inning, which gives the home team the lead and thereby ends the game. The term is attributed to Hall of Fame relief pitcher Dennis Eckersley, so named because after the run is scored, the losing team has to "walk off" the field.
This blast off Glendon Rusch caromed off the center field awning for an estimated 504 feet. So take any urban legends about someone's 600-foot homer with a grain of salt. As a result, no assortment of baseball's longest blasts can be considered 100 percent credible.
The ESPN Home Run Tracker listed it at 539 feet, one of the longest homers hit in the recorded era. Malcolm Emmons-USA TODAY SportsWillie Stargell is among the Hall of Famers who are also recognized as one of the best power hitters in MLB history. The Pittsburgh Pirates legend finished with 475 home runs, but it was a 535-foot blast at Olympic Stadium that lands on our list. On May 20, 1978, Stargell hit the farthest home run ever recorded in Canada with his eye-popping blast in Montreal’s Olympic Stadium.
It may not have been the only home run ever to leave Jacobs Field, but it was memorable. A perfect swing, the high altitude and maybe, just maybe, the bat he used all played a role. When Meyer came up for the at-bat in question that night, he had already homered. But players on the field thought it had only gone out because of the thin Rocky Mountain air. Babe Ruth had a bunch of moonshots over his baseball-wrecking career.
This is a list of some of the records relating to home runs hit in baseball games played in the Major Leagues. Some Major League records are sufficiently notable to have their own page, for example the single-season home run record, the progression of the lifetime home run record, and the members of the 500 home run club. A few other records are kept on separate pages, they are listed below. During the 1971 All-Star Game from Detroit’s Tiger Stadium, “Mr.
On July 7, 2021, Texas Rangers’ Joey Gallo hit a 462-foot home run off of Detroit Tigers pitcher Casey Mize. The blast had an exit velocity of 111.6 to right-center field. 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. Strawberry hit another dinger during New York's Opening Day victory and matched his previous season's career high with 39 homers that year. Off-field problems derailed his path to superstardom, but his Montreal moonshot serves as a reminder of his off-the-charts power.
He started his career with the A’s and made himself known with a pair of 40 home run seasons. During the 1989 ALCS against the Toronto Blue Jays, after a shortened season held him to 65 games and just 17 homers, Canseco hit the longest home run of all-time. His massive fifth deck shot at the formerly named Skydome registers in at 540 feet, earning him sole possession of first place on our list of longest dingers. An offshoot of hitting for the cycle, a "home run cycle" is when a player hits a solo home run, two-run home run, three-run home run, and grand slam all in one game.
This was just one of Thome’s 612 career bombs, most of which were hit in his time in Cleveland, but none as far as this absolute thwacking. In the 1989 American League Championship Series, Canseco ripped an inside pitch from Toronto’s Mike Flanagan about 10 rows into the upper deck at the Sky Dome . It’s by far the longest home run ever hit at the Rogers Center and few players have gotten the ball up to the top deck. Canseco and fellow ‘Bash Brother’ Mark McGwire teamed to hit their share of monstrous homers with the Oakland Athletics, none bigger than this blast. And, the fact that this bomb came in the post-season makes it even more impressive.
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