Immediately we’re transferring ahead on this sequence and get to the sixth longest residence run hit by a Cincinnati Reds participant within the 2024 season. If Tom Glavine and Greg Maddux have taught us something it’s that everybody loves the lengthy ball. Okay, maybe that wasn’t precisely the takeaway from these two guys, however lengthy residence runs have been one thing individuals have talked about for over 100 years. Solely within the final decade or so, although, have we really been in a position to measure their distance with *some* accuracy. Because of ball monitoring within the massive leagues we will evaluate 1-to-1 how far a baseball went. Each Monday for the following few months we’re going to be counting down the ten longest residence runs hit by the Cincinnati Reds within the 2024 season.
Rece Hinds is making his first look on the record this week, nevertheless it won’t be his ultimate look. This week’s residence run for Hinds got here in towards Colorado, identical to final week’s residence run on the record from Elly De La Cruz. It’s the third residence run hit towards the Rockies on the record that has solely lined 5 residence runs thus far.
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The Metrics Behind The Blast
Tyler Kinley had simply entered the sport to start the underside of the eighth inning for Colorado. Rece Hinds was set to steer off the inning and lead it off he did. Trailing within the rely 1-2, Hinds bought a 91 MPH slider that didn’t do a lot sliding and he unloaded on it. The ball left his bat at 109.6 MPH and headed in the direction of the Ohio River, touchdown 449 toes away within the higher deck bleachers in left-center area.
Distance Metrics
Distance: 449 Toes
Reds Ranks: sixth
Main League Baseball Rank: ninetieth (tie)
Rece Hinds Rank: 3
Different Metrics
Launch Angle: 25°
Exit Velocity: 109.4 MPH
Reds Exit Velocity Rank (residence runs solely): seventeenth (out of 174)
MLB Exit Velocity Rank (residence runs solely): 543rd (out of 5445)
The Story Behind The Blast
Rece Hinds was making his massive league debut. He had grounded out and doubled earlier within the sport whereas dealing with off towards starter Ryan Feltner. Tyler Kinley got here out of the bullpen to face Hinds within the eighth. Regardless of having a horrible 12 months the place he posted an ERA of 6.19, Kinley wound up with a 6-1 document in 2024. He had confronted the Reds twice earlier within the season and had given up two runs in 2.0 innings.
Hinds had swung and made contact on the primary pitch he noticed in every of his earlier two at-bats. This time round he fouled off the primary three earlier than taking a ball from Kinley. The final two pitches of that sequence had been each sliders. Third time wasn’t a attraction for Kinley right here, nevertheless it was for Hinds who was prepared for it and destroyed it when it caught an excessive amount of of the zone.
For Rece Hinds it was his first massive league residence run and helped kick off an unimaginable debut week the place he hit .423/.464/1.192 with three doubles, a triple, and 5 residence runs in seven video games main immediately into the All-Star break. That efficiency earned him participant of the week honors.
The house run to steer off the inning prolonged Cincinnati’s lead within the sport to 3-0. The Reds added three extra runs earlier than the inning was over and held on to win 6-0 behind 7.0 shutout innings from Andrew Abbott because the membership improved to 43-48 on the season.
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