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- Top item on every team's holiday wish list
- Former MLB Player T.J. House Comes Out As Gay: 'I'm Finally Healing'
- Luis Robert, Chicago White Sox: 487 feet
- When I Left Christianity, I Lost Christmas Too. Here's How I Got It Back.
- Luke Voit, New York Yankees: 453 feet
- Daylight Saving Time in Other Years
- Mär 2013 - Daylight Saving Time Started
The home run wasn’t just impressive to watch, but it was also the longest of Trout’s already historic career.
He’s never hit more than 15 homers in a single season, which happened in 2017. Pinder has registered four years of double-digit homers, though. When I think of the longest postseason homers of the Statcast era, Eric Hosmer definitely isn’t one of my first thoughts. That’s the beauty of baseball, though, folks. "There were people who worked at the stadium full-time," Tennyson explained.
Top item on every team's holiday wish list
The 2020 season was weird for everyone, but it was a banner year for Luke Voit. With 22 homers prior to the playoffs, he was the MLB home run leader. This helped him post a .610 slugging percentage across 234 plate appearances. How good of a performance was this? Well, he outperformed his home run number from in 276 fewer plate appearances.
Using an amazing tool from ESPN called the Home Run Tracker, I am going to pull out the 10 longest home runs of 2013 in terms of true distance. This is defined as the distance the ball would have traveled if it had continued traveling down to the field level without being impeded by bleachers or fans. Home runs require a combination of strength and accuracy.
Former MLB Player T.J. House Comes Out As Gay: 'I'm Finally Healing'
Napoli’s 460-foot home run was his fourth home run of calculated at 460 feet or more, the most such home runs this year. No other player even had three such home runs. On May 22, Cabrera hit a fly ball to the center-field wall at Progressive Field. Trout hit the longest home run of the season at two different ballparks -- Kauffman Stadium and Tropicana Field .
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. Meyer admits he never saw where it landed. 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.
Luis Robert, Chicago White Sox: 487 feet
Sanchez has also added a 5.0% walk rate and 36.4% strikeout rate during this time. Those numbers are substantially worse than his career numbers through the 2022 season (9.8% walk rate, 26.9% strikeout rate). Mike Napoli’s home run off Anibal Sanchez in Game 5 of the ALCS was calculated at 460 feet, the longest home run of the 2013 postseason. The 460-foot blast is also tied for the second-longest postseason home run since the beginning of ESPN HR Tracker in 2006, trailing only a 479-foot homer by Manny Ramirez in 2007. Athletics outfielder Coco Crisp finished 2013 with a career-high 22 home runs.
En route to the Royals winning the 2015 World Series title, KC’s first baseman launched this moonshot in the ALDS against the Houston Astros. Hosmer has slugged three postseason home runs in his career . What we see here was the only one he hit during the 2015 playoffs. Snyder’s homer is tied for the second-shortest out-of-the-park homer hit in the past eight seasons (trailing only a 311-foot shot by Jeff Keppinger in 2006).
No player knows this more than Mike Napoli, whose two home runs on May 1 against the Toronto Blue Jays rank among the longest blasts of the 2013 season. The latter of these home runs came off of Esmil Rogers for a three-run shot that added to an already impressive Red Sox lead. The home run was also the longest walk-off home run in the major leagues during the past eight seasons.
Prior to 2022, Stanton’s 2020 postseason performance is his best. 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.
In fact, it would have been 38 feet shy of the fence in the same location at Comerica Park, Cabrera's home field. Crisp’s average home run traveled 368.9 feet, the shortest average distance of any hitter in a single season with at least 20 home runs in the past eight seasons. The next-shortest was J.J. Hardy, who averaged 385 feet on his home runs. Mike Trout led the major leagues in average home run distance this season , averaging nearly 420 feet per homer.
If the visiting team launches one, it can silence 30,000-40,000 people in a single moment. But if that tater is slugged by the home team, stadiums feel like they start to shake. Had Bourn not made contact, the ball would have traveled only 386 feet and would not have been a home run in any major league park.
During the 2021 postseason, Pederson posted a 75 wRC+ but collected nine RBI in 15 games. So, when he registered hits, they came in key spots. The only thing better than postseason home runs are ones that appear to be traveling to another county. Since Statcast was implemented in 2015, here are the 14 longest postseason home runs during that time.
According to ESPN Home Run Tracker, Gattis' long ball beat the second-farthest home run of the year by 10 feet. When the Toronto Blue Jays and Boston Red Sox meet this season at the Rogers Centre, the deep blasts continue to fly. If players want to see just how far they can hit a home run this season, it seems like the Rogers Centre is the place to give it a try. That was the scene on May 21 when Pablo Sandoval smashed a two-run home run in the 10th inning off Yunesky Maya of the Washington Nationals. The home run was his second hit of the game, and his eighth home run of the season. The Home Run Derby showcases the best sluggers in the game.
It is a familiar story for Fenway Park as the five shortest home runs in the majors since 2006 have all been hit in Boston. It’s one thing for a player to hit one of the longest blasts of the season. It’s another when the blast is a walk-off home run that comes off the bat of a player with flu-like symptoms. The 2020 postseason was Mike Zunino‘s first taste of October baseball.
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