Brault: The Longest Home Runs in MLB During Week-24

Last week Steven Brault made the list as a hitter. This week he threw two of the 25 longest homers in MLB, both to Chicago’s Willson Contreras.

Last week Pittsburgh pitcher Steven Brault made the list of 25 longest dingers in MLB as a hitter. This week Brault was back on his accustomed side of the ledger…twice.

He could thank Chicago Cubs catcher Willson Contreras for the distinction.

Friday afternoon, during Chicago’s 17-8 pounding of Brault’s Pirates, Contreras twice took the Pittsburgh starter very deep. The first shot, in the first inning, landed three-quarters of the way up the bleachers in deep left-center. It was measured at 460 feet.

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Two innings later, Contreras introduced Brault to the shrubbery above deep center field, this one traveling 455 feet.

Both blasts qualified among the week’s 10 longest, although neither led the list. That distinction fell to St. Louis Cardinal rookie Rangel Ravelo, who blasted a Tim Melville hanging slider through Coors Field’s thin air to the walkway beyond the center field bleachers. It was measured at 487 feet.

Ravelo’s homer returned a favor authored by Colorado star Nolan Arenado against Cardinal pitcher Michael Wacha just two days earlier. Arenado’s shot, the week’s second-longest, carried 482 feet.

In the category of longest home run not struck in Denver, the award goes to… Miami’s Jorge Alfaro. On Saturday night in San Francisco, he touched Madison Bumgarner for a 473-footer. The ball traveled about 15 rows up in the bleachers in deep left-center field.

Contreras was one of four players to make the weekly list twice. The Chicago White Sox first baseman delivered a 462 footer off Angels pitcher Jaime Barria Sunday at Guaranteed Rate Field. On Friday, Abreu hammered Seattle’s Yusei Kikuchi for a 447-footer.

Kansas City’s Jorge Soler hit a 439-foot blast off Chicago’s Carson Fulmer on Wednesday, then on Thursday hit a 446-footer off Lucas Giolito.

Yankee Luke Voit’s two came Thursday, a 449-footer off Detroit’s Matthew Boyd, and Saturday, a 439-footer off Toronto’s Brock Stewart.

The average carry of the week’s 25 longest home runs in MLB was an inspiring 453.1 feet.

Here’s the full list of the week’s 25 longest home runs. The standard of measurement is distance as reported by Statcast. Where there are ties, they are broken by exit velocity.

                 Batter, team                     Pitcher, team                 Distance

1              Rangel Ravelo, Stl           Tim Melville, Col               487

2              Nolan Arenado, Col         Michael Wacha, Stl          482

3              Jorge Alfaro, Mia              Madison Bumgarner, SF473

4              Jose Abreu, CWS              Jaime Barria, LAA             462

5              Nelson Cruz, Min             Patrick Corbin, Was         460

6              Willson Contreras, Chc  Steven Brault, Pit             460

7              Kyle Lewis, Sea                Lucas Sims, Cin                457

8              Avisail Garcia, TB             Sam Gaviglio, Tor             456

9              Willson Contreras, Chc  Steven Brault, Pit            455

10           Yoan Moncada. CWS      Kevin McCarthy, KC         452

11           Randal Grichuk, Tor        Tyler Glasnow, TB            451

12           Willy Adames, TB            Andrew Heaney, Pit        450

13           Harrison Baber, Stl          Jesus Tinoco, Col             450

14           Luke Voit, NYY                  Matthew Boyd, Det        449

15           Sean Murphy, Oak          Joe Biagini, Hou                448

16           Ian Desmond, Col           Dakota Hudson, Stl          448

17           Jose Abreu, CWS             Yusei Kikuchi, Sea            447

18           Jorge Soler, KC                 Lucas Giolito, CWS           446

19           George Springer, Hou   Tanner Roark, Oak            446

20           Jeff McNeil, NYM            Taylor Clarke, Ari              444

21           Jonathan Villar, Bal         Caleb Ferguson, LAA      443

22           Bryce Harper, Phi            Max Fried, Atl                   443

23           Ryan O’Hearn, KC           Ivan Nova, CWS               440

24           Jorge Soler, KC                 Carson Fulmer, CWS      439

25           Luke Voit, NYY                 Brock Stewart, Tor         439