Baseball is known worldwide as the All-American sport, and people from all around the United States flock to sports stadiums to watch their favorite teams. The longest home run in Coors Field history has an asterisk. But what if I told you the guy who has the longest home run ever barely even played in the Major Leagues? 26 Feb 2023 21:05:55 The spot where Stargell's ball landed was marked . His achievements include two Silver Slugger Awards, two World Series MVP Awards, and the Babe Ruth Award. . But some familiar sluggers, including some teammates, deliver huge blasts that left everyone in the stadiums just admiring the baseball as it flew out. MLB 4.06M subscribers Subscribe 2.8K 243K views 1 year ago Check out the longest homers. Arizona Diamondbacks prospect Leandro Cedeno pulverized a baseball on July 15, blasting it over the fence for a 527-foot moonshot. Theres no better example than this shot that found its way over the right-field seats at Kauffman Stadium. Even in an era where pitchers are throwing harder than ever and hitters are making louder contact, we rarely see 500-foot home runs. Also a player who through his career was an average hitting outfielder with sub-par defense. When I hit third base [third-base coach/manager] Terry Bevington is the one who told me, 'You went into the upper deck.' It's pretty intimidating.\"\n\nThe homer also needed to be officially measured, so the team called in the best possible person they could: City of Denver engineer Jerry Tennyson.\n\n\"I don't know why they decided to \\[call me\\],\" Tennyson told me over the phone. Longest home winless run: 9, 26 December 1979 - 7 April 1980; Longest away winless run: 34, 11 February 1986 - 17 October 1987; Full Mariners leaderboard, Rangers: Nathaniel Lowe -- April 4 at KCDistance: 465 feet (Watch it)Lowe took over the starting role at first base this season for Texas and he had a knack for hitting some long balls. The longest blast in the StatCast era came in 2005, when Nomar Mazara hit a 505-foot cannon. Full Cubs leaderboard, Pirates: Anthony Alford -- Sept. 3 at CHCDistance: 469 feet (Watch it)Alford was a pleasant surprise for the Pirates late in the year, as the 26-year-old outfielder slugged five homers in his 49 games. 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 . Full Padres leaderboard, Rockies: Ryan McMahon -- May 15 vs. CINDistance: 478 feet (Watch it)The Rockies sent Nolan Arenado to St. Louis prior to the 21 season, but his replacement at the hot corner wasnt too shabby. But that's a whole other insane story. 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. Sign up to receive our daily Morning Lineup to stay in the know about the latest trending topics around Major League Baseball. Marcell Ozuna, ATL: 479 feet ( Watch it) 7. Giancarlo Stanton has a solid reputation for consistently hitting insanely long home runs, making it hard for him to beat himself! Sammy Sosa, 2002-- 524 Feet Sammy Sosa at the height. Let's revisit some of the longest home runs of 2022. Aided by the thin air, much like baseballs hit out of Coors Field today, Joey Meyer launched a towering blasted that traveled an absurd 582 feet and is the longest homer ever caught on video. Five-plus years later, San Francisco got a new No. Postseason homers are included here. The media descended on Mile High the next day -- wanting to talk to the man who reached heights never reached before. Cameron Rupp 461 feet 5. But then Bradley Jr. stepped to the plate in Colorado and rocketed this pitch 112.1 mph over the right-field fence, going 478 feet into the night. Nobody had ever done it in a game. Full Brewers leaderboard, Cardinals: Rangel Ravelo -- Sept. 12, 2019 at COLDistance: 487 feet (Watch it)Ravelo logged a whopping 838 games over parts of 10 Minor League seasons before he was finally called up in June 2019, and he made the most of his opportunity by hammering a massive Coors Field blast less than three months later. Full Cardinals leaderboard, Cubs: Willson Contreras -- Oct. 18, 2017 vs. Dodgers (NLCS Game 4)Distance: 491 feet (Watch it)The Cubs' longest home run in the regular season is a 481-footer by El Mago, Javier Bez, on Aug. 23, 2018. The Sultan of Swat gets credited for all kinds of records and moments that live in MLB history. What's the first tater-shattering, gravity-defying, ear-splitting blast that comes to your mind? Some people speculate that it might actually have been quite a few feet shorter, but thats still the longest home run hit for years! 8 TCU (3-2) 10-1 Friday night at Lupton Stadium behind a strong performance from starting pitcher Jackson Baumeister (1-0). He put a bow on his terrific year with a two-homer performance against the Pirates, with his second blast nearly leaving Great American Ball Park altogether. Tommy Pham, SD: 486 feet (Watch it)3. 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. Meyer hit 135 homers over 580 games. \"He had Cal Ripken's bats. Both in terms of average home run distance and max exit velocity, he crushes baseballs like no one else in the sport. One of the most cherished records in all of major league baseball is the most career home runs . Buffalo Bisons pitcher Mike Murphy threw a 2-2 slider that Meyer crushed 582 feet into the thin Colorado air. Ryan McMahon: 478 feet (Watch it)8-T. Duvall, ATL: 477 feet (Watch it)8-T. Fernando Tatis Jr., SD: 477 feet (Watch it)10-T. Trevor Story, COL: 475 feet (Watch it)10-T. San, MIN: 475 feet (Watch it), Blue Jays: George Springer -- May 1 vs. ATLDistance: 470 feet (Watch it)Springer introduced himself to the Toronto -- or rather the Buffalo -- faithful in one heck of a way. Glenallen Hill isnt one of the most prominent names from our examination of the furthest home runs hit in MLB history. "I think it was more than 505 feet. But they just asked me to come in and told me this is where it hit and it seems like it could be a hell of a long ways. In August against the Boston Red Sox, San uncorked a 495-foot cannon deep into the night at Fenway Park. Iowa shocked college baseball on Saturday, dominating top-ranked LSU 12-4 in the Karbach Round Rock Classic. 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. 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. However, when it was measured based on the available landmarks, the distance was more accurately stated to be approximately 530 feet. "He had Cal Ripken's bats. His first homer of the year against the D-backs wasnt just the teams longest, but it was also a walk-off that gave his team a 1-0 win. ","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. 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. Here are the longest homers Statcast has tracked since Opening Day of the 2015 season. But I didn't watch it, you know. 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. 480 feet: Pete Alonso 3. 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! Meyer's Denver Zephyrs -- the Triple-A affiliate of the Brewers -- were taking on the Buffalo Bisons at Mile High Stadium. "When the Zephyrs needed a uniform shirt for Meyer a year ago, the only one big enough was a souvenir shirt in a Denver sports bar," Dave Anderson wrote. 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. Cleveland's Cody Allen buried a 91 mph four-seam fastball down and . Meyer, 25, had been slugging his way through the Minors the past few years. ESPN's Home Run. On a team with Joey Gallo, it takes a monster home run to set the record, and Mazara provided it. The 2022 All-Star made his second appearance on this list with his 504-foot bomb at Coors Field off Arizona Diamondbacks. "The next one, though, was that one.". 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. Unsurprisingly, what many believe to be among the farthest home runs hit ever are based on first-hand accounts. Sending one into a ballpark's upper deck or out of the stadium was their speciality and has always been one of the coolest parts of the game. In a 3-1 count with the Twins trailing 4-3, Buxton turned a hanger from Liam Hendricks into a no-doubt 469-foot blast to end the game. It all happened the night of June 2, 1987. 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. Now I'm 58, I appreciate more things now than I did," he told me. He liked my bats, so I traded him my bat for a Cal Ripken bat. It landed on the rooftop across the street from Wrigley Field and estimates suggest it traveled around 500 feet. But not so fast. After being diagnosed with colon cancer in '20, the Os slugger overcame it and returned to blast 21 homers. Statcast has given us a whole new tool to answer that question, thanks to the tracking technology at every MLB ballpark. If you Google "longest home run ever hit," the search pops up on Joey Meyer. Judge stepped to the plate in the. 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. Among them, a towering blast on April 3, 1919, with a plaque that credits him for a 587-foot home run. Pham sent a German Mrquez slider all the way to the concourse in Colorado, a spot that hitters otherwise found only during the Home Run Derby in July. He was a big prospect with a big frame. Full Giants leaderboard, Padres: Tommy Pham -- Aug. 17 at COLDistance: 486 feet (Watch it)Pham might have had an up-and-down season in San Diego, but that didnt stop him from knocking the longest homer in the NL this year. The longest home run hit in a Major League Baseball game travelled 175 m (575 ft) by George Herman "Babe" Ruth (USA) for the New York Yankees against the Detroit Tigers at Navin Field in Detroit, Michigan, USA, on 18 July 1921. The Longest Home Run Ever Joey Meyer on June 3, 1987: 582 Feet Glenallen Hill on May 11, 2000 Reggie Jackson on July 13, 1971 Darryl Strawberry on April 4, 1988 Adam Dunn on August 10, 2004 Cecil Fielder on August 25, 1990 Mo Vaughn on June 26, 2002 Ken Griffey Jr. on April 12, 1996 Barry Bonds on June 8, 2002 Even the rain couldnt cool him off, as he launched not only the longest homer from a Chicago batter, but the third-longest across baseball this season. The 2021 season was filled with moonshots aplenty, as MLB hitters (and pitchers) combined to swat nearly 6,000 home runs. Marcell Ozuna, ATL: 479 feet (Watch it)7. Gary Sanchez hits a 473 ft BOMB at Yankee Stadium (via @Twins) pic.twitter.com/QoXWOOBNye, Mike Trout, Los Angeles Angels 472 feet. For comparison, the longest MLB home run in 2022 (more below) traveled 499 feet and the official record for the farthest home run ever hit in MLB history went 505 feet (Nomar Mazara). ET, 5:00 p.m. MT on Monday, July 12. Looking ahead to 2022, MLB free agency is something to keep in mind. These are the longest Coors Field moonshots "At least give me the extra foot," Yelich joked about just missing the 500-foot club. Detroit Tigers J.D. He was added to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1988 and is renowned as a baseball legend. As with Darryl Strawberrys record-breaking hit, Reggie Jacksons ball was obstructed by the venue and the full reach of the hit had to be calculated. Highest Home Attendance (all-time): Manchester City: Hillsborough Stadium: 17 February 1934 (FA Cup Round 5) . At 499 feet, it's the second-longest at Coors Field since the advent of Statcast in 2015. Full Yankees leaderboard. Taking his swings at Coors Field, the All-Star slugger demolished a. Meyer's Denver Zephyrs -- the Triple-A affiliate of the Brewers -- were taking on the Buffalo Bisons at Mile High Stadium. He continued his hot streak through April, highlighted by this blast against the AL champs in Houston. Mantles famous baseball was actually stolen from its display case in the Yankee Stadium by a group of boys who regretted the theft and returned it. The Astros defeated the Athletics 5-1. According to the New York Times, the team couldn't even find a jersey to fit his torso that season.\n\n\"When the Zephyrs needed a uniform shirt for Meyer a year ago, the only one big enough was a souvenir shirt in a Denver sports bar,\" Dave Anderson wrote.\n\nMeyer's high school coach in Honolulu still raves about his power, saying he could come out right now and still hit homers. Longest home losing streak, yet people had the nerve to ask in the game threads why it's mostly visiting fans. 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. It was really loud." Full Rays leaderboard, Red Sox: Franchy Cordero -- May 23 at PHIDistance: 474 feet (Watch it)Cordero hit just one home run for the Red Sox in '21, but he made it count. 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. The first of two 442 footers on this list, Haase hit the longest of his 22 home runs against his former club in their yard. Washington Nationals outfielder Juan Soto hit the longest home run in the Home Run Derby (StatCast era) in 2021. The homer also needed to be officially measured, so the team called in the best possible person they could: City of Denver engineer Jerry Tennyson. In fact, the Indians erected a 12-foot bronze statue in his honor in Heritage Park! One of those nearly found the rooftops of Chicago, as Alford left Wrigley Field completely. Both the baseball and bat used to set this record were put on display in the Yankee Stadium. 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. I appreciate things more now than I did a few years ago.". On June 3, 1987 at Mile High Stadium in Denver, Colorado, Meyer hit the longest verifiable home run in the history of professional baseball. 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. Giancarlo Stanton is the second only player since 2015 to hit one 500-plus feet. BYRON BUXTON 469 FOOT BLAST FOR THE WALK OFF! Full Orioles leaderboard, Rays: Avisal Garca -- May 14, 2019 at MIADistance: 485 feet (Watch it)It took a long time for anybody to break J.P. Arencibia's mark of 464 feet, set back in 2015. The awe-inspiring two-run shot soared about halfway up the third deck. 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