A ranking of the 25 longest home runs struck by MLB players during the past week. The list is headed by Ryan McMahon’s 479-foot bomb Thursday night.
The Colorado Rockies played a home series against the Los Angeles Dodgers this weekend, so naturally, the smoke from that series heavily populates the week’s list of longest home runs in MLB.
Would you expect anything else from a series in Colorado between the majors’ winningest team and one of its most prolific run-producers?
Through the series’ first three games, the Rockies managed to out-score the Dodgers by an average of 9-8 while winning two of the three. From a standpoint of pure power, the series also produced 13 home runs, three of those traveling at least 430 feet through the thin air of Denver.
A 479-foot cannon shot rendered Thursday night by Ryan McMahon off Yimi Garcia measured 479 feet, making it the week’s longest bomb. One night later, Max Muncy took Carlos Estevez deep to the tune of 464 feet and Alex Verdugo extracted a 439-footer out of Antonio Senzatela, those working out to be the week’s fourth and 17th longest.
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The average distance of the 25 longest home runs this week was 446.44 feet. That’s actually a comedown from the more than 451-foot average of just a week ago.
Some of the game’s biggest names muscled up this week. Bryce Harper, he of the 13-year contract with the Phillies, got off a 448-foot home run against New York’s Zach Wheeler. Giancarlo Stanton got back on the field long enough to produce a 445-footer off Toronto’s Derek Law, and Manny Machado recorded a 455-foot shot off Jimmy Yacacbonis during the Padres’ visit to Machado’s old home in Baltimore.
Fernando Tatis Jr. and Eloy Jimenez represented the coming generation. On Saturday night, Tatis unleashed a 440-footer off the Cardinals, Dominic Leone. Jimenez’ 433-foot home run against Minnesota’s Blake Parker that same night was, by Jimenez’s prolific standards, only ordinary, but it still measured out as the week’s 23rd longest.
Ranking on the list is determined by the distance a home run travels as recorded by Baseball Savant. Where tikes exist, they are broken by exit velocity. The hardest hit home run this week was Travis Shaw’s missile struck last Sunday against Anthony DeSclafini. It went out at 113 mph and landed 465 feet later.
Here’s the full list of the longest home runs in MLB for this week.
Rank  Date  MLB Batter, team     MLB Pitcher/team       Exit Vel.   Distance
1     6-27   Ryan McMahon, Col      Yimi Garcia, LA           108.3      479
2     6-29  Nelson Cruz, Min       Jose Ruiz, CWS           112.4      469
3     6-23  Travis Shaw, Mil        Anthony DeSclafani, Cin   113.0      465
4     6-28  Max Muncy, LA         Carlos Estevez, Col        110.1      464
5    6-25    Manny Machado, SD      Jimmy Yacabonis, Bal         110.3      455
6        6-27     Starling Marte, Pit         Cy Sneed, Hou                       106.8      455
7       6-23   Pete Alonso, NYM      Cole Hamels, Chc         110.0      454
8        6-26   Franmil Reyes, SD      Dylan Bundy, Bal         106.6      452
9        6-27   Bryce Harper, Phi      Zach Wheeler, NYM             111.0     448
10   6-26    George Springer, Hou     Dario Agrazal, Pit          110.9     448
11   6-24   Giancarlo Stanton, NYY Derek Law, Tor            111.1     445
12   6-27   Josh Bell, Pit                     Brad Peacock, Hou        110.9     445
13    6-26  Pablo Sandoval, SF         German Marquez, Col         110.8     444
14    6-23  JaCoby Jones, Det       Zach Plesac, Cle          109.5     442
15    6-23  Josh Donaldson, Atl     Austin Voth, Was         109.8      441
16    6-29  Fernando Tatis Jr., SD    Dominic Leone, Stl        111.5     440
17    6-28  Alex Verdugo, LA        Antonio Senzatela, Col    105.8     439
18    6-25   Ronald Guzman, Tex    Daniel Stumpf, Det       106.9     438
19     6-23  Garrett Cooper, Mia     Edgar Garcia, Phi         107.8     437
20     6-28  Nick Castellanos, Det    Anibal Sanchez, Was     105.2     436
21    6-23  Travis d’Arnaud, TB      Brett Anderson, Oak      107.2     434
22    6-28   Lourdes Gurriel, Tor     Danny Duffy, KC          105.7     434
23    6-29   Eloy Jimenez, CWS     Blake Parker, Min         111.2     433
24    6-24  Maikel Franco, Phi       Steven Matz, NYM        108.8     433
25    6-27   Matt Olson, Oak        Griffin Canning, LA        106.8     431