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McMahon hit exactly two homers in each month between April and July. Through seven games in August, he already hit three dingers. Trevor Story‘s mammoth 505-foot homer was part of an incredibly powerful three-homer night.
Thome would also play for the Phillies, White Sox, Dodgers, Twins, and Orioles during his 22-year career but is still Cleveland’s all-time home run leader with 337. Why hit just one ball 490-plus feet when you can do it more than once? What strikes me the most about this blast is it looks like he barely even swung. Judge’s stroke appears to be nice and easy, almost as if he was taking batting practice. Since we’ve now shifted into the Statcast era, the following homers will be in order, starting with the longest. Specifically looking at his minor-league career leading up to his MLB debut, Meyer was a legit power threat at each level.
Nomar Mazara, Texas Rangers outfielder – 505 feet, Globe Life Park
The longest blast in the StatCast era came in 2005, when Nomar Mazara hit a 505-foot cannon. Giancarlo Stanton is the second only player since 2015 to hit one 500-plus feet. Sure, he has the advantage of playing with increased elevation at Coors Field, but what C.J.
One of the largest men ever to play major league baseball, at six feet seven inches, 275 pounds, Howard was the absolute epitome of size and strength. His trail of National League home runs was already legendary when he moved to the American League in 1965. Before he retired after the 1973 season, he had performed even more extraordinary feats of long-distance hitting in the junior circuit.
Willie Stargell, Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder – 535 feet, Olympic Stadium
He told MLB.com "I don't tell anybody" about his time in professional baseball. MLB.com's Ben Weinrib described Stanton's homer as the longest homer since MLB installed Statcast in all stadiums in 2015. Stanton hit a ball in the Coors Field, one of the highest baseball parks in the MLB. Before Giancarlo Stanton was hitting home runs in Yankee Stadium, he was one of the Miami Marlins’ biggest home run threats. Putting him in the thin air of Denver’s Coors Field is sure to increase the likelihood of a long Stanton home run. On August 16, 2016, that’s exactly what happened when he hit one 504 feet.
Decades before these modern advances, historians were left to make questionable estimations or even use an actual tape measure. It’s been a turbulent career for Minnesota Twins slugger Miguel Sanó. An All-Star selection in 2017, Minnesota’s 6-foot-4 masher is more than capable of hitting one of the longest home runs ever.
Four consecutive home runs by a team in one game
And, it’s also the second time it’s happened within the same week. While Cron’s overall offensive production has gone down compared to last season, he’s poised to pass his power numbers in short order thanks to racking up more plate appearances in 2022. In the 1989 American League Championship Series, Canseco ripped an inside pitch from Toronto’s Mike Flanagan about 10 rows into the upper deck at the Sky Dome . It’s by far the longest home run ever hit at the Rogers Center and few players have gotten the ball up to the top deck. Canseco and fellow ‘Bash Brother’ Mark McGwire teamed to hit their share of monstrous homers with the Oakland Athletics, none bigger than this blast. And, the fact that this bomb came in the post-season makes it even more impressive.
This behemoth of a bomb came while he represented the Oakland Athletics in the 1971 All-Star Game. Share your opinion on our baseball message boards where a topic on the longest hit ever has already begun. 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.
T10. Giancarlo Stanton, 504 Feet (
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. From interviews with the surviving source of the original data, it is readily apparent once again that the all had bounced several times before it reached the estimated distance.
Unsurprisingly, some of the farthest home runs ever hit in the Home Run Derby happened in 2021 thanks to the effects of playing in Colorado. 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. July 3rd, 1999 still stands as a milestone for Indians fans, who fondly remember the astounding home run that secured Jim Thome’s place in MLB history.
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. 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. This article appeared in The Home Run Encyclopedia and is sole property of the author.
On its way down, in cranked off of the scoreboard located well above the playing surface on the second deck level of Chase Field. This blast from Sexson reminds us all why he’s not just one of the best names in sports, but that he was also a home run and RBI producer as well. A plaque affixed to a rock behind home plate at Belmar Memorial Field honors the baseball hall of famers who played there, including Josh Gibson. That hit tied him with Adam Dunn for the tenth-longest home run in history at 504 feet. Stanton’s currently tied at 87th on the all-time list with 387, sharing that spot with Yankee legend Yogi Berra and Carlos Lee. Back before he started wearing Yankee pinstripes, Giancarlo Stanton was hitting homers for the Miami Marlins.
Not surprisingly, all of the great true distance hitters have also been the source of the greatest exaggerations. Despite his extraordinary accomplishments, Babe Ruth is not immune. His tremendous blow to right-center field in Detroit on June 8, 1926, has often been reported as traveling over 600 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.
It may not have been the only home run ever to leave Jacobs Field, but it was memorable. Moving into the eighties, Mike Schmidt, Jim Rice, and Darryl Strawberry set the pace at a time when modern technology permitted us to better understand the limitations of the flight of a batted ball. The same home runs that had once been described as 500 footers were now being scientifically calculated in the 450-foot range.
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