DENVER — Christian Yelich of the Milwaukee Brewers etched his name in the Coors Field record books on Tuesday night, blasting the longest home run ever hit at the park by a left-handed hitter as well as the longest home run hit at the mile high park this season.
Yelich opened the game for the Milwaukee Brewers by hitting a 2-1 pitch from Colorado Rockies starter Chad Kuhl 499 feet into the third deck in right field. The home run landed just a row in front of the standing area separating the Coors Field party deck from the seating area.
Watch Christian Yelich hit the longest home run at Coors Field this season.
499 FEET!
— Milwaukee Brewers (@Brewers) September 7, 2022
Yeli launches one to the stratosphere.@ChristianYelich | #ThisIsMyCrew pic.twitter.com/awBqH0qWg6
The home run was the 12th of the season for Yelich and just his fourth since the All-Star break. The 30-year-old former National League MVP entered Tuesday’s contest slashing .258/.358/.385 while earning a fourth-place spot on the Brewers with 2.3 bWAR so far this season.
Yelich’s blast was the second-longest in the history of Coors Field, falling five feet short of the record set by Giancarlo Stanton when he came to Denver as a member of the Miami Marlins in 2016.
Longest Homers in Coors Field History
— Patrick Saunders (@psaundersdp) September 7, 2022
1.504 feet, Giancarlo Stanton, Marlins 8/6/16.
2.499, Christian Yelich, Brewers, 9/6/22
3.496, Mike Piazza, Dodgers, 9/26/97
4.496, Jesus Sanchez, Marlins 5/30/22
5.495, Ryan McMahon, Rockies, 8/9/22
Yelich’s 499-foot blast was the third home run this season at Coors Field measuring 495 feet or longer, and only one of those was hit by a member of the Rockies, with that coming on Ryan McMahon’s 495-foot shot on August 9 against the St. Louis Cardinals. McMahon’s homer is the longest by any Colorado player inside Coors Field since the park opened in 1995.
Former Rockies shortstop Trevor Story hit a home run in 2018 that originally measured 505 feet. However, Statcast revised the shot later to 487 feet.