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- Luke Voit, New York Yankees: 453 feet
- Touching World Cup Moment As Heartbroken Neymar Comforted By Son Of Croatian Player
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- LONGEST: Evan Gattis of the Braves hit the longest home run of the year. It traveled 486 feet off of Cole Hamels.
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Chris Davis led MLB with an Orioles-record 53 home runs this season. He showed power to all fields, with 16 of his 53 home runs going to left or left center field, 14 to center field and 23 to right field. Davis’ average homer to center field this season traveled over 422 feet. Against one of the best closers in baseball, Wright took Kimbrel deep in the ninth inning to tie the game for the New York Mets and setup an extra inning victory. The at-bat featured one of the NL East’s best hitters against one of the league’s most dominant closers, and resulted in a blast towards right-center field. Those power numbers are nice, but it doesn’t make up for the lack of production he’s had otherwise.
How much harder than that is it to hit a baseball with such power that it flies hundreds of feet through the air? Exponentially harder, I imagine. Through the span of seven months, 20 major league sluggers have combined to produce 25 of the longest home runs recorded during the 2013 season. The 23-year-old smacked his fourth home run of the season against Alexi Ogando and the Texas Rangers to right-center field and helped the Cubs take a 6-2 victory. Rizzo is currently tied for the fifth most home runs in the National League this season.
Luke Voit, New York Yankees: 453 feet
Here are the longest homers of the 2013 season. Not bad for a player whose hip concerns this past offseason delayed his free agent deal. Considering that Cobb has a 2.73 ERA on the season, Rasmus’ long ball is even more impressive. Let’s take a look at the 10 longest home run blasts of the 2013 season. Will Schwarber ever square a ball up this well again?
But for now, it’s Trumbo who has the deepest blast for the Angels, and the entire 2013 season. If you want to pick a Blue Jay with the best chances of hitting a home run, Jose Bautista or Edwin Encarnacion may be your pick. If you want to pick who has the best chances of hitting the deepest blast, Colby Rasmus should be the early favorite. Colby Rasmus has hit seven home runs this season, two of which rank among the longest home runs of the entire season. His longest, a 468-foot blast off Alfredo Aceves of the Boston Red Sox, was just his second of the season and padded an early season victory for the Toronto Blue Jays.
Touching World Cup Moment As Heartbroken Neymar Comforted By Son Of Croatian Player
"The next one, though, was that one." "Yeah I always hit home runs, but I prided myself that at every level I played, I hit for average," Meyer said. Top editors give you the stories you want — delivered right to your inbox each weekday. On the next few pages we will take a look at the longest, the shortest, the fastest, and the slowest home runs of the season. Bourn, a two-time Gold Glove winner, started to backpedal as he approached the fence. He then leaped with the intention of robbing Cabrera of extra-bases.
"When you're not used to that many reporters and all of their things tied together in front of you, you know, their microphones. It's pretty intimidating." The media descended on Mile High the next day -- wanting to talk to the man who reached heights never reached before. You get the feeling Meyer, modest and soft-spoken over the phone, was almost frightened by the attention. Overwhelmed by his own power. "The first one I hit barely went over the fence, so everybody on the other team was yelling cheapie and all that," Meyer said.
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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 .
But who has hit the longest home run this season? Take a look at the 15 longest home runs of the 2013 MLB season so far. There's home run king Barry Bonds, there's Adam Dunn depositing baseballs into other states. There's the unbelievable power of Wily Mo Peña or Glenallen Hill.
LONGEST: Evan Gattis of the Braves hit the longest home run of the year. It traveled 486 feet off of Cole Hamels.
However, his name likely comes to mind pretty quickly for Alex Cobb following the fifth inning blast that Rasmus hit off of him to the third deck at the Rogers Centre. The Rays managed to maintain their lead and win the game, but Rasmus hit his second home run of more than 460 feet this season. His overall performance in the Championship Series is quite interesting, too. While Contreras’ .688 OPS during this postseason round is his second-worst mark, two of his three career postseason home runs have come during that time. He was limited to just 94 plate appearances in the regular season, which led to four homers and 11 RBI. Stanton out-performed both those numbers in 31 postseason plate appearances while posting a 255 wRC+.
He wasn't trying to "memorialize it." He did say a University of Colorado professor called him shortly after the measurements came out and agreed with how he came up with the distance. "I don't know why they decided to ," Tennyson told me over the phone. 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.
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.
Frazier hasn’t homered since, but it’s clear what the 27-year-old is capable of following his monster blast during the opening month of the season. Although he has hit only four home runs this season, his last two have come off of Scherzer and James Shields, two of the better pitchers he’s faced this season. Schwarber spread his homer production across all postseason rounds in 2015, too. He hit one in the NL Wild Card Game, two in the NLDS, and then two in the NLCS. His OPS progressively decreased along the way (2.333, 1.683, .821), but the damage was done. The Braves didn’t advance past the NLDS in 2019, but it had nothing to do with a then-21-year old Ronald Acuña Jr. and his performance.
When it comes to baseball, everyone has their favorite player and there’s nothing more exciting than watching your favorite player hit a home run out of the park. These 20 players did more than just hit a home run, they hit the longest home runs of the 2013 baseball season. Some of the names that are on the list and some of the ones that are not may surprise you. That was the scene on April 29 when Mark Trumbo took a 3-1 pitch towards left-center field for his fourth home run of the season. The ball landed past the outfield seats and added to the Angels early lead against the Oakland Athletics.
In his first full season as a big leaguer, he nearly joined the club with 41 homers and 37 stolen bases. According to the White Sox's official Twitter account, the gargantuan blast traveled an estimated 475 feet. 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. Not being a fan of baseball, he also said he was just focused on getting an exact measurement and not taking home run history into consideration at all.
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