At this time we begin one among my favourite sequence of the offseason. If Tom Glavine and Greg Maddux have taught us something it’s that everybody loves the lengthy ball. Okay, possibly that wasn’t the precise takeaway from these two guys, however lengthy house runs have been one thing folks have talked about for over 100 years. Solely within the final decade or so, although, have we actually been capable of measure their distance with *some* accuracy. Because of ball monitoring within the massive leagues we are able to examine 1-to-1 how far a baseball went. Each week for the following few months we’re going to be counting down the ten longest house runs hit by the Cincinnati Reds within the 2024 season.
The tenth longest house run of the season in 2024 by a Purple was on Could sixteenth by Will Benson. The house run got here within the 1st inning when Benson clobbered a fastball from Tyler Glasnow of the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium.
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The Metrics Behind The Blast
Will Benson was simply getting the sport began. He had battled with Tyler Glasnow for 5 pitches already, however the sixth pitch of the sport caught an excessive amount of of the candy a part of the plate and the Reds outfielder acquired all of it as he gave some fan a pleasant memento in the precise discipline bleachers roughly 439 ft from house plate.
Distance Metrics
Distance: 439 Ft
Reds Ranks: tenth
Main League Baseball Rank: 243rd (tie)
Will Benson Rank: 1
Different Metrics
Launch Angle: 31°
Exit Velocity: 107.5 MPH
Reds Exit Velocity Rank (house runs solely): thirtieth (out of 174)
MLB Exit Velocity Rank (house runs solely): 1209th (out of 5445)
The Story Behind The Blast
Will Benson had been in a hunch coming into the sport. He was hitting simply .139 in Could coming into the day, and he was slugging simply .250 on the month. His solely house run of Could had come two days earlier in Arizona. For a lot of the month he had been hitting eighth or ninth, however this was the third straight day he was within the leadoff spot.
Tyler Glasnow had began Benson out with three fastballs in a row, with Benson fouling off the third on to make it a 2-1 depend. He adopted up with two straight sliders and Benson fouled each of them off, too. Glasnow in all probability ought to have gone with one other slider, or his catcher ought to have known as for a goal not dead-red center of the plate. The 96 MPH fastball was fairly near the goal and that’s not factor when the glove is centered like that.
Benson’s sixth house run of the yr put the Reds up 1-0 and so they by no means appeared again as they have been up 7-0 till the Dodgers lastly acquired on the board within the backside of the ninth earlier than Cincinnati sealed a 7-2 win to open up the sequence. Los Angeles would win the following three video games to earn the sequence win.
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