But then Bradley Jr. stepped to the plate in Colorado and rocketed this pitch 112.1 mph over the right-field fence, going 478 feet into the night. His achievements include two Silver Slugger Awards, two World Series MVP Awards, and the Babe Ruth Award. Let's revisit some of the longest home runs of 2022. Facing the Chicago White Sox on April 24, Minnesota Twins outfielder Byron Buxton made history. Full As leaderboard, Mariners: Jake Bauers -- Sept. 19 at KCDistance: 460 feet (Watch it)Bauers hit only two home runs for Seattle after coming over from Cleveland midseason, but one of those went a long, long way. Full Nationals leaderboard, Phillies: Kyle Schwarber-- Oct. 18, 2022, at SDPDistance: 488 feet (Watch it)During Game 1 of the NLCS, Schwarber crushed a cutter from Yu Darvish into the second deck at Petco Park for the longest Phillies home run of the Statcast Era. "I never thought I was anybody . "When the Zephyrs needed a uniform shirt for Meyer a year ago, the only one big enough was a souvenir shirt in a Denver sports bar," Dave Anderson wrote. Mantles 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. ","type":"markdown"},{"__typename":"PhotoPart","caption":"Photo via Joey Meyer","contextualCaption":null,"contextualAspectRatio":"1:1","credit":null,"format":"jpg","templateUrl":"https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-images/image/private/{formatInstructions}/v1614207939/mlb/rmoqqnaa0qsgs1wp1de7","type":"photo"},{"__typename":"Markdown","content":"When Meyer came up for the at-bat in question that night, he had already homered. Plenty of other visiting batters have the same opportunities Cron has, but he has the second-longest home run in the season thus far. Mickey Mantle (who on September 10, 1960, mythically hit "the longest home run ever" at an estimated distance of 643 feet (196 m), although this was measured after the ball stopped rolling . CJ Cronfirst baseman, hit a home run of 504 feet, the second longest in history, to be tracked, and the longest of the season.Elijah Diazended a night of excellent hitting The Cubs' longest home run in the regular season is a 481-footer by El Mago, Javier Bez, on Aug. 23, 2018. On Aug. 10, 2004, in a matchup against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Dunn delivered a moment hell never forget. One of those nearly found the rooftops of Chicago, as Alford left Wrigley Field completely. Both in terms of average home run distance and max exit velocity, he crushes baseballs like no one else in the sport. "I think it was more than 505 feet. Full Pirates leaderboard, Reds: Joey Votto -- Sept. 27 vs. PITDistance: 466 feet (Watch it)Votto had a renaissance season in 21, smashing 36 homers after hitting 38 in 18, 19 and 20 combined. Full Red Sox leaderboard, Yankees: Giancarlo Stanton -- Aug. 27 at OAKDistance: 472 feet (Watch it)Stanton has made a habit of showing up on any leaderboard that has to do with home runs during his career. Adam Dunn was a notable quarterback during high school football in Texas, and agreed to play football for the University of Texas at Austin. I don't remember how I actually came up with the calculations -- it involved the speed of the baseball, what kind of arc it was on, where it landed in the east stands and where it may have been projected beyond that point.\"\n\nThe 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. Prior to San's blast, the longest home run at Fenway tracked by Statcast was a 469-foot bomb by Hanley Ramirez on April 29, 2017. However, the 6-foot-2 slugger made history with the longest home run ever officially recorded through StatCast. \"The next one, though, was that one.\"\n\nMeyer reared back and connected with a breaking ball from reliever Mike Murphy -- sending it deep into the Denver darkness. Meet Oklahoma State first baseman Griffin Doersching. Even in an era where pitchers are throwing harder than ever and hitters are making louder contact, we rarely see 500-foot home runs. @Tstory2 's 518 ft homer is the longest tracked in the #HRDerby by Statcast, passing Aaron Judge (513 ft) in 2017. Out of his 72 hits in '21, 33 left the yard and 17 of those homers travelled over 400 feet. Photo via Joey Meyer. The Brewers lefty slugger crushed a hanging changeup from Chad Kuhl into the third deck in Denver. 1 - Willie Stargell crushed one home run on June 25, 1971, it hit a seat in Section 601, and it was the longest home run ever hit at Veterans Stadium (half credit to Jim Bunning).Only two other players would hit a home run into the 600 level, the upper deck, at the Vet (before it closed), Butch Huskey (Section 638) & Ruben Rivera (Section 638). It should come as no surprise that the record books for the longest home run ever in baseball history are spotty. Not only was the blast the longest of the '21 season, but its also tied for the fifth-longest homer tracked in the Statcast era. 26 Feb 2023 21:05:55 Full Angels leaderboard, Astros: Kyle Tucker -- May 18 at OAKDistance: 459 feet (Watch it)It was early in the season, but Tuckers 459-foot homer proved to be an important one in a matchup with the division-rival As. Its been a turbulent career for Minnesota Twins slugger Miguel San. Both the baseball and bat used to set this record were put on display in the Yankee Stadium. His season reached a peak during the Home Run Derby in Colorado, where he made an incredible run to the finals. Anyhow, Mercedes' clout is the longest home run by a White Sock since Joe Borchard sent one 504 feet back in 2004, which means it's the longest Sox blast of the Statcast era (i.e., since. 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. This astounding home run ball went so high that it hit the roof of the Olympic Stadium, and people speculated that it would have kept on going if its path hadnt been obstructed! Judge's 36th home run of his incredible year went down as the longest of the 2022 season, coming just two days before one that came up earlier on the list. The Hawaii native hit just 18 homers in 156 games with the Brewers between 1988 and 1989, but, standing at a giant 6-foot-3, 260 pounds, he was a big-time power threat in the Minors. pic.twitter.com/XPrE7xN5I1, Yordan Alvarez, Houston Astros 469 feet, Byron Buxton, Minnesota Twins 468 feet Longest walk-off home run. . Goldschmidt has had 30 or more homers in each of the past four full seasons, and not many of them have been cheap, either. If you Google "longest home run ever hit," the search pops up on Joey Meyer. Contreras crushed a home run high off the Wrigley Field scoreboard in left field to open the scoring in Game 4 of the National League Championship Series. Full Dodgers leaderboard, Giants: Austin Slater -- July 4 at ARIDistance: 467 feet (Watch it)The Giants havent had a player hit 30 home runs since Barry Bonds in 05, but that didnt stop them from leading MLB in homers in 21. There is no specific data on the farthest home run in the the Home Run Derby pre-StatCast era. His 504-footer at Coors Field came a year before his 59-homer MVP season in 2017, but Stanton has shown plenty of times before and since this home run that he can clear the fence by a long, long way. Ronald Acua Jr., ATL: 481 feet ( Watch it) 6. Babe Ruth vs. Josh Gibson: Who was a better hitter? You know, the types of moonshots and dingers that need a tape measure to figure out how far they traveled. Taking his swings at Coors Field, the All-Star slugger demolished a. Five-plus years later, San Francisco got a new No. The Cincinnati Reds also picked him during the 1998 Major League Baseball draft almost immediately afterwards, which required everyone to strike a deal so that he could divide his time between both pursuits. Here is the longest verified home run in professional baseball history! Apparently this isn't even Ronny Mauricio's longest home run. Sammy Sosa, 2002-- 524 Feet Sammy Sosa at the height. Full Nationals leaderboard, Phillies: Bryce Harper -- April 25 at COLDistance: 468 feet (Watch it)Harper slugged his way into NL MVP contention this season with the Phillies, hitting 35 homers and posting an absurd 1.044 OPS in 141 games. Baseball fans love statistics, and plenty of statistics are kept for home runs. Lets dive into the best moonshots in MLB history and the longest home run ever. He never appeared in an All-Star Game from 1989-2001 and he never hit more than 28 homers in a single season. It was really loud." 461 feet: Pete Alonso T-11. The ESPN Home Run Tracker listed it at 539 feet, one of the longest homers hit in the recorded era. 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. Meyer ended up hitting three home runs that night with Ripken's lumber. 480 feet: Pete Alonso 3. So, just how long can the greatest home runs get? When Mo Vaughn hit this run, Keith Hernandez said mid-broadcast: It looks like theres beer coming off that sign.. Bill Jenkinson, in The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs, estimates that Ruth lost at least 50 and as many as 78 in his career due to this rule. MOON. 463 feet: Pete Alonso, Julio Rodriguez 10. On a team with Joey Gallo, it takes a monster home run to set the record, and Mazara provided it. As for Meyer -- he started the '88 season with the Brewers. One of the longest home runs in Wrigley Field history coming from a guy who had 11 that season at the tender age of 35. In 1987, Joey Meyer, playing for the Triple-A Denver Zephyrs, launched this ball an astonishing 582 FEET! 472 feet: Ronald Acuna Jr. 5. Full Giants leaderboard, Padres: Franchy Cordero -- April 20, 2018 at ARIDistance: 489 feet (Watch it)Franchy absolutely crushed this one: 116.3 mph and 489 feet. After swatting a two-run homer in the third off Charlie Morton, he followed with a game-tying solo shot in the seventh that may still be orbiting Earth at this very moment. Full Brewers leaderboard, Cardinals: Rangel Ravelo -- Sept. 12, 2019 at COLDistance: 487 feet (Watch it)Ravelo logged a whopping 838 games over parts of 10 Minor League seasons before he was finally called up in June 2019, and he made the most of his opportunity by hammering a massive Coors Field blast less than three months later. Full Cubs leaderboard, Pirates: Anthony Alford -- Sept. 3 at CHCDistance: 469 feet (Watch it)Alford was a pleasant surprise for the Pirates late in the year, as the 26-year-old outfielder slugged five homers in his 49 games. The longest home run in baseball this season was hit at Fenway Park on Wednesday night Miguel San's 495-foot solo shot in the third inning was the fifth-longest homer of the Statcast era.. "The next one, though, was that one.". "The first one I hit barely went over the fence, so everybody on the other team was yelling cheapie and all that," Meyer said. Tigers: J.D. The following morning, the homeowner got in his car and ran the 22-year-old over. Unsurprisingly, what many believe to be among the farthest home runs hit ever are based on first-hand accounts. Its extremely tricky to determine the distance of a home run accurately since so many factors go into a good measurement, but Mo Vaughns hit was clearly a milestone! There are stories of his 600-foot home runs or treating old Yankee Stadium like it was his own personal Little League field. After being diagnosed with colon cancer in '20, the Os slugger overcame it and returned to blast 21 homers. He hit one 507 feet last year in Somerset. But this shot at the Oakland Coliseum left us awe-struck anyway. Meyer admits he never saw where it landed. It was only the fourth career homer off a southpaw for the left-handed-hitting Zimmer, whose previous long was 435 feet. On May 20, 1978, Stargell hit the farthest home run ever recorded in Canada with his eye-popping blast in Montreals Olympic Stadium. Here are the farthest home runs hit in MLB this year with video links attached in the distance. Stanton is the best power hitter in MLB today, theres no question about it. He wasn't trying to "memorialize it." Tennyson was shocked when I told him it's considered perhaps the longest measured home run in the history of baseball, telling me multiple times "that's incredible." Based on the most accurate possible measurements, Kingmans home run is said to be the longest one in the history of Wrigley Field. Cameron Rupp 461 feet 5. Stargell and the Pirates adopted the song We Are Family by Sister Sledge as their team anthem. https://t.co/wmu8ohJbHp. 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 basemans glove and was turned into a double play. Meyer reared back and connected with a breaking ball from reliever Mike Murphy -- sending it deep into the Denver darkness. Los Angeles Angels outfielder Mike Trout hit the second- longest home run in 2022. It all happened the night of June 2, 1987. Full Tigers leaderboard, Twins: Miguel San -- Sept. 17, 2019 vs. CWSDistance: 496 feet (Watch it)San got absolutely all of this one. Sign up to receive our daily Morning Lineup to stay in the know about the latest trending topics around Major League Baseball. @MikeTrout just LAUNCHED a 472-ft HR! The first baseman was even given the Barry Bonds treatment in his school days, getting intentionally walked with the bases loaded.\n\n\"Yeah I always hit home runs, but I prided myself that at every level I played, I hit for average,\" Meyer said. 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