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Meyer reared back and connected with a breaking ball from reliever Mike Murphy -- sending it deep into the Denver darkness. The ball kept going up and up until it hit halfway up the second deck of Mile High Stadium -- a place very few baseballs go. If you watch the video, the camera can't even follow it that high. Meyer admits he never saw where it landed. When Meyer came up for the at-bat in question that night, he had already homered. But players on the field thought it had only gone out because of the thin Rocky Mountain air.
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.
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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.
Crisp was able to take advantage of short fences down the lines, not hitting a single homer to left center, center or right center field. With a 1-1 count, Napoli took Mark Buehrle deep to dead center for his fifth home run of the season. Following his second blast of the game in the seventh inning, Napoli became the only player in the past eight years to hit two home runs that traveled at least 460 feet in the same game.
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Meyer's high school coach in Honolulu still raves about his power, saying he could come out right now and still hit homers. The first baseman was even given the Barry Bonds treatment in his school days, getting intentionally walked with the bases loaded. Gattis’ homer is the longest hit by an Atlanta Braves player in the past eight seasons and is tied for the ninth-longest in all of baseball over that same stretch. On Sept. 8, Evan Gattis drove a Cole Hamels fastball 486 feet to dead center field at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia for what would finish as the longest home run of 2013. Mike Trout may have the most recent monster blast, and Albert Pujols and Josh Hamilton are capable of making this list at any point.
It is a familiar story for Fenway Park as the five shortest home runs in the majors since 2006 have all been hit in Boston. It’s one thing for a player to hit one of the longest blasts of the season. It’s another when the blast is a walk-off home run that comes off the bat of a player with flu-like symptoms. The 2020 postseason was Mike Zunino‘s first taste of October baseball.
Ronald Acuña Jr., Atlanta Braves: 455 feet
What about Mickey Mantle? There are stories of his 600-foot home runs or treating old Yankee Stadium like it was his own personal Little League field. Now that you have seen the list, check out the video with clips of each hit. Get ready for eight and a half minutes of pure home run joy.
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.
But not all home runs are created equally. Speaking of Holliday, he had three of the 10 longest home runs in the 2013 postseason. His longest was a 430-foot home run off Ryan Dempster in Game 1 of the World Series. Only Matt Holliday has had more home runs calculated at 460 feet or more in a season .
Sanchez has also added a 5.0% walk rate and 36.4% strikeout rate during this time. Those numbers are substantially worse than his career numbers through the 2022 season (9.8% walk rate, 26.9% strikeout rate). Mike Napoli’s home run off Anibal Sanchez in Game 5 of the ALCS was calculated at 460 feet, the longest home run of the 2013 postseason. The 460-foot blast is also tied for the second-longest postseason home run since the beginning of ESPN HR Tracker in 2006, trailing only a 479-foot homer by Manny Ramirez in 2007. Athletics outfielder Coco Crisp finished 2013 with a career-high 22 home runs.
"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.
En route to the Royals winning the 2015 World Series title, KC’s first baseman launched this moonshot in the ALDS against the Houston Astros. Hosmer has slugged three postseason home runs in his career . What we see here was the only one he hit during the 2015 playoffs. Snyder’s homer is tied for the second-shortest out-of-the-park homer hit in the past eight seasons (trailing only a 311-foot shot by Jeff Keppinger in 2006).
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