The Bomb Squad: The Longest Home Runs in MLB During Week-20
By Bill Felber
Ryan McMahon and the Rockies deliver four of the MLB’s 25 longest homers during the first two games of their series with Miami at Coors this week.
The combination of Miami’s shaky pitching and Coors Field’s hitter-friendly dimensions was too enticing for Colorado Rockies second baseman Ryan McMahon to pass up. This accounted for four of MLB’s longest home runs this past week.
On Saturday night during the Rockies’ 11-3 rout of the Marlins, McMahon drove an Adam Conley pitch 455 feet. One night earlier, on the way to a 3-0 victory over the Marlins, McMahon smoked a Sandy Alcantara pitch for 444 feet. They were, respectively, the week’s third and 11th longest home runs.
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They were also two of five Rockies home runs among the week’s 25 longest. On Monday night, Trevor Story hit a 437-footer against Arizona’s Merrill Kelly. Friday night, Nolan Arenado hit a 435 footer off Ryne Stanek. Then on Saturday, Ian Desmond followed one of McMahon’s homers with a 454-footer of his own.
During their trip into Denver, Marlins pitchers accounted for four of the 25 longest bombs.
The only two longer than McMahon’s 455-footer were a 467-foot blast struck Monday by Houston’s George Springer against Chicago’s Dylon Cease at Guaranteed Rate Field, and Gio Urshela’s 461-footer for the Yankees off Baltimore’s Gabriel Ynoa Sunday.
Minnesota’s Jose Berrios made two starting appearances during the week and allowed batters to go very deep against him in each. On Sunday, Berrios surrendered a 439-foot blast to Cleveland’s Greg Allen. The following Saturday, Texas’ Danny Santana rode a Berrios pitch 441 feet.
The average distance of the week’s 25 longest home runs was 444.6 feet. As deep as that sounds, it’s actually modest by contemporary standards. The average of the 25 longest one week ago exceeded 451 feet; it was 447 feet two weeks ago.
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The list measures the longest home runs in MLB as calculated by Statcast. Where ties exist, they are broken by exit velocity. Here are the week’s 25 longest.
Batter, team Pitcher, team Distance
1 George Springer, Hou Dylan Cease, CWS 467
2 Gio Urshela, NYY Gabriel Ynoa, Bal 461
3 Ryan McMahon, Col Adam Conley, Mia 455
4 Ian Desmond, Col Wei-Yin Chen, Mia 454
5 Matt Chapman, Oak Aaron Sanchez, Hou 453
6 Pete Alonso, NYM Julio Teheran, Atl 451
7 Jon Berti, Mia German Marquez, Col 451
8 D J LeMahieu, NYY John Means, Bal 446
9 James McCann, CWS Ty Buttrey, LAA 446
10 Kris Bryant, Chc Aaron Nola, Phi 445
11 Ryan McMahon, Col Sandy Alcantara, Mia 444
12 Nick Ahmed, Ari Jake McGee, Col, 443 l
13 Gary Sanchez, NYY Adam Plutko. Cle 441
14 Paul Goldschmidt, Stl Steven Brault, Pit 441
15 Danny Santana, Tex Jose Berrios, Min 441
16 Hunter Pence, Tex Devin Smeltzer, Min 439
17 Greg Allen, Cle Jose Berrios, Min 439
18 Roman Quinn, Phi Chris Paddock, SD 439
19 Adam Duvall, Atl Hyun-Jin Ryu, LA 438
20 Mike Trout, LAA Lucas Giolito, CWS 438
21 Mike Yastrzemski, SF Yoan Lopez, Ari 438
22 Carlos Correa, Hou Mike Fiers, Oak 437
23 Trevor Story, Col Merrill Kelly, Ari 437
24 Nomar Mazara, Tex Brock Stewart, Tor 436
25 Nolan Arenado, Col Ryne Stanek, Mia 435