471 feet: Juan Soto T-6. I appreciate things more now than I did a few years ago.". 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! 8 TCU (3-2) 10-1 Friday night at Lupton Stadium behind a strong performance from starting pitcher Jackson Baumeister (1-0). This specific homer came during a high scoring, 23-22 loss against the Phillies at Wrigley Field in Chicago. Its been one of the lone bright spots for Sanchez this year, who joined Minnesota as part of the Isiah Kiner-Falefa trade. Before we get to that . He hit 91 homers from 1984-86, batting around .300 and cracking 100 RBIs twice. But no matter how many homers one can hit, the ones that get remembered the most are the dingers that travel the farthest. Both in terms of average home run distance and max exit velocity, he crushes baseballs like no one else in the sport. In fact, it's so exciting that one of the highlights of the major league baseball season is the Home Run Derby that occurs every year right before the All-Star Game. Adam Dunn was a notable quarterback during high school football in Texas, and agreed to play football for the University of Texas at Austin. Adam Dunn was nicknamed Big Donkey while he played. In the 1971 Midsummer Classic, slugger Reggie Jackson sent Dock Ellis pitch practically out of Tiger Stadium, with the ball bouncing off the roof as everyone in attendance just sat back in shock. It more like 600 feet. The longest blast in the StatCast era came in 2005, when Nomar Mazara hit a 505-foot cannon. But Contreras went even deeper than Baez in the 2017 playoffs against the Dodgers. 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. ","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. Released by the Detroit Tigers in July, Mazaras chances of becoming an impact MLB player might be over. 26 Feb 2023 21:05:55 The year-on-year 1.1% drop in prices represented the first annual decline in the cost of a home since June 2020, when the housing market reopened after the first Covid lockdown. Full Phillies leaderboard, Brewers: Avisal Garca -- June 3 vs. ARIDistance: 464 feet (Watch it)The Brewers rode their pitching staff all the way to October, but their lineup made sure to give them some support as well. It came with the Miami Marlins in 2016, fittingly at Coors Field. The Colorado Rockies they prevailed in a racing festival, 13-10, to the Arizona Diamondbacks in the Coors Field from Denver. ", Joey and his wife, Piilani. 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. In Game 3 of the 2020 AL Wild Card Series against the A's, Robert demolished a Mike Fiers pitch in the second inning into the far reaches of the left-field bleachers, giving the White Sox a 1-0 lead in a game Chicago would ultimately lose, 6-4. Ohtani got all of Kris Bubics changeup in Anaheim, clobbering it into right-center at 111.7 mph. Tigers: J.D. \n","providerName":"Twitter","providerUrl":"https://twitter.com","type":"rich","width":550},"type":"oembed"},{"__typename":"Markdown","content":"\"No, I don't even tell them I played,\" Meyer said with a laugh in a phone interview with MLB.com, his work walkie-talkie blaring in the background. Maybe his towering shot helped a few fans feel like they were back in 2016 again. Not only was the blast the longest of Bostons season, but it was also both the second-longest and the hardest hit homer recorded by a Red Sox batter in the Statcast Era (since 2015), clocking in at a blistering 118.6 mph. When I hit third base \\[third-base coach/manager\\] Terry Bevington is the one who told me, 'You went into the upper deck.' Even in the friendly Coors Field environment, Taylor's 110.1 mph exit velocity meant this home run was no joke. Adam Duvall 458 feet 9. Full Royals leaderboard. The New York Mets first baseman owns the longest in-game home run of any player competing in this year's Derby. Five-plus years later, San Francisco got a new No. And I just calculated it from there. Martinez hit a 467-foot home run off of Seattle Mariners Taijuan Walker on July 21, 2015. During the 2021 MLB season, we didnt see any of the deepest homers approach the record for the longest home run ever hit. His season reached a peak during the Home Run Derby in Colorado, where he made an incredible run to the finals. Pham's longest home run at Busch Stadium took place on May 1, 2018, against the White Sox. Tucker was a big part of the Astros run to the World Series, as he knocked a career-high 30 homers during the regular season. It gets the edge by a single foot over the 118.6 mph, 495-foot home run Judge crushed that June off the Orioles' Logan Verrett. He then used it the next day, and in his first plate appearance, it broke.\n\n\"Everybody told me don't use it again, but of course I did,\" Meyer said. The spot where Stargell's ball landed was marked . They rode his hot streak all the way to the World Series, but his blast in Arizona prior to the playoffs was perhaps his most impressive. Adam Dunn hit 462 home runs in his career, earning a reputation as one of the best home-run threats during his era. 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. 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. Meyer hit 135 homers over 580 games. In 1987, Joey Meyer of the Triple-A Denver Zephyrs launched a moonshot into the. (Scott was traded from Rochester, the Orioles' Triple-A affiliate at the time.) 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 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. Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Christian Yelich hit the longest home run in 2022, demolishing a 499-foot blast off Colorado Rockies pitcher Chad Kuhl on Sept. 6. Reggie Jackson hit an impressive 563 home runs during his MLB career and earned a number of different awards for his outstanding performance. @Tstory2 's 518 ft homer is the longest tracked in the #HRDerby by Statcast, passing Aaron Judge (513 ft) in 2017. Before Strawberry broke the record, the previous longest Olympic Stadium Home Run was made by Willie Stargell at 475 feet. Moss retired the following spring, but his power clearly remained in his bat until the end. Interestingly, Braves outfielders account for four of the longest MLB home runs in 2021. 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. Statcast has given us a whole new tool to answer that question, thanks to the tracking technology at every MLB ballpark. Ryan Howard 455 feet 10. Alonso already crushed plenty of impressive shots in his rookie year, and he added to his resume against Twins reliever Matt Magill, sending a slider 110.9 mph and 489 feet to left at Target Field. Sign up to receive our daily Morning Lineup to stay in the know about the latest trending topics around Major League Baseball. There is nothing better in sports than a towering home run. \"When you're not used to that many reporters and all of their things tied together in front of you, you know, their microphones. "I'm not much of a baseball fan, don't know much about it, didn't know much about it. He hit one 507 feet last year in Somerset. Skip to content. The 495-foot blast cleared the wall in right-center field, sailed over the advertising signs and went into the second deck of the deepest part in the yard. 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. Marcell Ozuna, ATL: 479 feet ( Watch it) 7. Just like in the 2019 Home Run Derby, Alonso has the edge over Acua. Still, not bad for the King of Crash. "I've been working at this job for five years and I don't tell anybody.". While All-Stars like Joey Gallo, Shohei Ohtani and Salvador Perez will try to crush balls deep into the Denver. In 1987, Joey Meyer of the Triple-A Denver Zephyrs launched a moonshot into the. Both Mackenzie Gore and Cron knew it was gone as soon as it touched the bat. Look up the farthest home run ever hit and youll see New York Yankees legends Mickey Mantle and Babe Ruth mentioned. Yermn Mercedes gets an honorable mention here for the club's longest regular-season homer since 2015, blasting a 485-foot shot against the Royals at Guaranteed Rate Field on April 8, 2021. 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. ","type":"markdown"},{"__typename":"ExternalEmbed","data":{"__typename":"ExternalEmbedContent","html":", Its funny; I knew the LF grandstand at Mile High seemed more like Mile Away, but I never fully realized why. He's the only player with two 470-foot homers in the same day since Statcast started tracking. While its possible Oklahoma State gave a favorable measurement, the 513-foot homer would easily be the farthest home run in 2022 at any level of baseball. Avid baseball fans get tons of enjoyment even from the most predictable games, and special achievements are even better! So, just how long can the greatest home runs get? Nomar Mazara: 505 feet, June 21, 2019, vs. CWS After crushing a a 482-foot shot on Opening Day in '19, Mazara topped himself for the Statcast record with a colossal smash against the White Sox. https://t.co/wmu8ohJbHp. Cleveland's Cody Allen buried a 91 mph four-seam fastball down and . Maybe it's the Sultan of Swat, the King of Crash. There's the unbelievable power of Wily Mo Pea or Glenallen Hill. After bouncing once on the concourse, it fell onto the street as a souvenir that holds a place in MLB history. The 2021 Home Run Derby begins at 7:00 p.m. The giant football/baseball stadium could hold about 70,000, but just a little over 1,000 people were in attendance. For a full list of record titles, please use our Record . July 3rd, 1999 still stands as a milestone for Indians fans, who fondly remember the astounding home run that secured Jim Thomes place in MLB history. Some people speculate that it might actually have been quite a few feet shorter, but that's still the longest home run hit for years! Adam Duvall, ATL: 483 feet ( Watch it) 5. Ravelo's drive went most of the way up the seats in left-center. A version of this story originally ran in March 2021. Interestingly, it came with the switch-hitting Smoak batting right-handed against lefty Robbie Ross, even though he hit with more power from the left side over his career. Full Braves leaderboard, Marlins: Jess Snchez -- Sept. 12 at ATLDistance: 460 feet (Watch it)Adam Duvalls departure opened the door for one of Miamis top prospects in Snchez to take an everyday role in the outfield and the 24-year-old lefty slugger took full advantage of it. Candelario tied Martinez with a long home run into the bullpens in right-center field in Cleveland four years later. MLB history offers reports of truly epic blasts, which well dive into below. Full Astros leaderboard, Athletics: Seth Brown -- July 10 at TEXDistance: 472 feet (Watch it)After a few cups of coffee with Oakland in '19 and 20, Brown exploded for his first 20 home runs as a role player in '21, with all but one coming against right-handed pitchers. All records listed on our website are current and up-to-date. Full Yankees leaderboard, Guardians: Bradley Zimmer -- Aug. 9, 2021 vs. CINDistance: 471 feet (Watch it)Edwin Encarnacin held the mark at 466 feet for more than four years before Zimmer surpassed him with a blast off Reds lefty Justin Wilson that disappeared over the center-field wall at Progressive Field. It should come as no surprise that the record books for the longest home run ever in baseball history are spotty. With 14 homers in 90 games, Marte didnt have the best power numbers, but he still showed he can send a ball into orbit. It should come as no surprise that Coors Field is responsible for the three longest home runs in MLB this season. Diamondbacks prospect Leandro Cedeno just hit a 527 foot home run!Yeah, FIVE TWO SEVEN pic.twitter.com/kPn7lXxVKP, 2022 MLB season FAQ: Everything you need to know. 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 . The baseball sailed to the right of the second deck, 454 feet from home plate. That blast was projected at 486 feet and stood as the Angels' record until Trout outdid himself with an eerily similar dinger on the final day of the 2022 season. CJ Cron's second home run of the night gives him 16 on the season! 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! Wilver Dornell Stargell led the Pirates to two World Series victories and six division titles. Buffalo Bisons pitcher Mike Murphy threw a 2-2 slider that Meyer crushed 582 feet into the thin Colorado air. Full Mets leaderboard, Nationals: Kyle Schwarber -- April 16 vs. ARIDistance: 463 feet (Watch it)Schwarbers time in the Nations Capital was short lived, but he still proved to be valuable to the Nats before being shipped out to Boston at the Trade Deadline. There are stories of his 600-foot home runs or treating old Yankee Stadium like it was his own personal Little League field. One of the most cherished records in all of major league baseball is the most career home runs . 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. Full Brewers leaderboard, Cardinals: Paul Goldschmidt -- June 26 vs. PITDistance: 470 feet (Watch it)St. Louis might have been the hottest team in September, but they were still winning games prior thanks to their All-Star first baseman. Meyer admits he never saw where it landed. Injuries slowed Baddoo down this season, but with his power, he could very well top this list again in 2022. Incredibly, it is the longest walk-off home run ever tracked by StatCast since 2015. Plenty of other visiting batters have the same opportunities Cron has, but he has the second-longest home run in the season thus far. Out of his 72 hits in '21, 33 left the yard and 17 of those homers travelled over 400 feet. If you watch the video, the camera can't even follow it that high. Full D-backs leaderboard, Dodgers: Luke Raley -- Sept. 22 at COLDistance: 472 feet (Watch it)The Dodgers had three former MVPs, two former Rookie of the Year Award winners and nine All-Stars in their lineup this season, but it was the rookie Raley who had the biggest blast of the year for the boys in blue. What if I told you he's currently working a regular day job way out in Maui and never even talks about it? In the second game of a doubleheader, Thomas took a 3-1 pitch and sent it towering to left-center and it didnt stay in the stadium long. The first baseman was even given the Barry Bonds treatment in his school days, getting intentionally walked with the bases loaded. 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. Pederson then hit a second 470-footer on this same day -- he hit one 472 feet in the other half of the Dodgers' doubleheader against the Rockies. The numbers are truly staggering, with Mantle credited for a 734 foot home run at Yankee Stadium in 1963 and a 656-foot blast that is rumored when he was a 19-year-old in an exhibition match against USC. He did have some other special moments: He's the only player to ever hit a walk-off homer off Roger Clemens, and he belted 26 homers in 104 games during one season in Japan. Some people insist that the wind helped him achieve this amazing record, while others point out that others played in the same conditions with inferior results. It was abrupt. Ryan McMahon: 478 feet ( Watch it) If you Google "longest home run ever hit," the search pops up on Joey Meyer. Full Reds leaderboard, D-backs: Ketel Marte -- May 30 vs. STLDistance: 457 feet (Watch it)Marte had another fine season out in the desert for the D-backs in 21, cracking the .900 OPS mark for the second time in his career. 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. Yordan Alvarez connects on the longest home run of his career, a 469-foot blast, on May 30, 2022 at RingCentral Coliseum in Oakland, California. Here are the farthest home runs hit in MLB this year with video links attached in the distance. Full Twins leaderboard, White Sox: Luis Robert -- Oct. 1, 2020 at OAKDistance: 487 feet (Watch it)We all knew by this point that Robert had incredible raw power. Now I'm 58, I appreciate more things now than I did," he told me. This one was the 52nd and last of his AL Rookie of the Year-winning season, a 118.3 mph, 496-foot monster shot to left-center off then-Blue Jays pitcher Marcus Stroman. That's right, Mantle actually topped himself. Taking his swings at Coors Field, the All-Star slugger demolished a 520-foot blast in Colorado that astonishingly went into the third deck of the stadium. 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." On May 20, 1978, Stargell hit the farthest home run ever recorded in Canada with his eye-popping blast in Montreals Olympic Stadium. ESPN's Home Run. But some familiar sluggers, including some teammates, deliver huge blasts that left everyone in the stadiums just admiring the baseball as it flew out. A couple minutes later, Frank Gore's 6-yard run followed a 32-yard punt return by Ted Ginn Jr., and the 49ers were within eight.Ray Rice's fumble at his 24 led to David Akers' 34-yard field . Washington Nationals outfielder Juan Soto hit the longest home run in the Home Run Derby (StatCast era) in 2021. 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. "Well, I knew I hit it good," Meyer told me. Yogi Berra had just walked, leaving it up to the 21-year old Mantle to extend the . MLB Daily Dingers . Year(s) Football Alliance Champions: 1890 FA Cup Winners: 1896, 1907, 1935 FA Cup Runners-up: "Everybody told me don't use it again, but of course I did," Meyer said. So, there you have it: the longest verifiably measured homer in history. On Aug. 9, Colorado Rockies infielder Ryan McMahon unloaded on a pitch in the 7th inning of a 14-5 blowout against the St. Louis Cardinals. The Astros record-setting shot was also part of a historic 6-for-6 game for Springer, who became the first Astros player to collect six hits in a nine-inning game. 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. Ronald Acua Jr. 460 feet 6. 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