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The ball left the building, literally ending up on Eagle Avenue beyond the center field backdrop and bouncing through the streets. 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. During the 2021 MLB season, we didn’t see any of the deepest homers approach the record for the longest home run ever hit. But some familiar sluggers, including some teammates, deliver huge blasts that left everyone in the stadiums just admiring the baseball as it flew out. 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. It should come as no surprise that Coors Field is responsible for the three longest home runs in MLB this season.
The next truly great slugger in the chronology of long-distance hitting was Ted Williams, who arrived on the major league scene in 1939. His slender physique belied his subtle strength and natural ability to generate bat speed. On May 4 of that year, Williams cleared the towering right-field grandstand in Detroit and served notice that he was as powerful as he was refined with a bat in his hands. As late as 1960, Teddy Ballgame was still going strong, when he opened the season in Washington with a 475-foot bolt to right-center field. Coincidentally, that was the same ballpark where Mickey Mantle had supplanted Williams as the game's longest hitter seven years earlier. In order to fully understand and appreciate long-distance hitting, a frame of reference should be established.
Longest Home Run Ever Hit
Regardless of how the scores turn out and who wins the game, record-breaking home runs are always exciting. Entering the 1970s, Reggie Jackson was already established as one of the best ever. His 1971 All-Star blast off the light tower atop the right-center-field roof at Tiger Stadium ranks as one of the 10 longest drives in major league history. Also ranking among the elite during that decade were Greg Luzinski, Dave Kingman, and George Foster.
October” delivered a massive game changing three-run homer to right field that cleared the entirety of the stadium’s impressively high standing bleachers. The blast still stands over 40 years later as the longest homerun in MLB All-Star game history. Jackson went on to make a name for himself as a postseason darling and one of the most clutch players of all-time.
Aaron Judge on September 30, 2017: 496 feet
William Jenkinson, researchers estimated the fabled fly ball at 573 feet, and the New York Times originally reported a 630-foot flight. Jenkinson's findings serve as the basis for the used mark of 530 feet. This list includes icons, Hall and Famers and rakers who wielded unquestionably elite power. Yet near the top sits a journeyman who belted 186 home runs over a career devoid of regular playing time.
As you can see from the clip, he entered the All-Star break with 17 dingers, and he’d finish the season with 32 overall. The most home runs hit by a Major League Baseball team in a season is 307, and was achieved by the Minnesota Twins , from 28 March to 29 September 2019. Catchers constantly change baseballs because it is a rule set by the MLB and enforced by umpires. Few people on the planet can describe the feeling of hitting a ball so far that even the camera operators have trouble tracking its flight.
Glenallen Hill, Chicago Cubs outfielder – 500+ feet, Wrigley Field
On August 10th of the 2004 season, Dunn connected on one of his 46 on the season and put himself in the top 3 for farthest dingers. He also became the only man, and still stands as so, to hit a ball clear out of The Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati. He hit the ball to the deepest part of the park in center-field, proving why he show up on our list twice. During the 1971 All-Star Game from Detroit’s Tiger Stadium, “Mr.
Similarly, Comiskey's left-field roof was also visited by many batted balls, but only one is confirmed to have cleared it on the fly. That homeric deed was performed by the powerful Jimmie Foxx on June 16, 1936. As Ruth's talents waned in the early 1930s, Foxx began his ascendancy. In 1932, the muscular "Double X" almost equaled Ruth's season record of 60 home runs. It was heresy to suggest that Ruth's accomplishments could be surpassed, but for a few seasons it appeared that Foxx might do just that.
Joey Meyer on June 3, 1987: 582 Feet
Certainly, this drive was propelled somewhere around 500 feet in the air, which makes it legitimately historic, but proof that it traveled 600 feet cannot be found. In truth, that figure derived from the distance from home plate to the place where a neighborhood child retrieved the ball. Since this home run was the only one that ever cleared those bleachers during decades of major league and Negro League competition, it is genuinely deserving of recognition. However, the actual distance in the air was probably about 510 feet. The same process was at work for Mantle on September 10, 1960, in Detroit, where his right-center-field rooftopper was reported to have traveled more than 600 feet.
This behemoth of a bomb came while he represented the Oakland Athletics in the 1971 All-Star Game. With Mazara’s recent hit, he will find himself tied with Vaughn in the record books. Mr. October receives the benefit of the doubt for his July feat, but watch the ball rocket off his bat. The roof might have stopped it from clearing Detroit altogether. Hall of Fame pitcher Don Sutton marveled at Stargell’s homer hit against his Los Angeles Dodgers.
Brown wasn’t known for giving up a lot of home runs, but the Cat sure lit him up. 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. "There were people who worked at the stadium full-time," Tennyson explained. A perfect swing, the high altitude and maybe, just maybe, the bat he used all played a role.
Tiger Stadium was famous for its low roof and a few players have hit balls completely out of the ballpark, but Jackson’s 532-foot home run stands as one of the longest on record. The A’s McGwire hit the ball so hard off of Cleveland’s Orel Hershiser that it caused the veteran pitcher to mouth the word “wow” as the ball sailed into the left field bleachers. Though this home run is impressive, it pales in comparison to the one later in this list, an absolute blast against future Hall of Famer Randy Johnson. At the time of this blast, McMahon sported just a 96 wRC+, and his .154 ISO was on track to be the lowest of his career when given a full season’s worth of plate appearances. This homer could be a sign of his bat coming alive, though. McMahon hit exactly two homers in each month between April and July.
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