Giancarlo Stanton’s home run from Thursday’s game still hasn’t landed.
The Miami Marlins slugger has hit some skyscraping moonshots in his young career, but he opted for a different flight pattern in Philadelphia when he hit an absolute laser beam of a two-run homer off Phillies pitcher Justin De Fratus in the sixth inning.
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That thing wouldn’t have just hit Fenway Park’s Green Monster. It would have gone through it.
According to ESPN’s Home Run tracker, the 369-foot homer left Stanton’s bat at 113.6 miles per hour. That’s almost 3 mph faster than David Ortiz’s mammoth Wednesday home run, which carried 445 feet.
Stanton’s blast also traveled at an absurd 124.2-degree angle, or the rough equivalent of a Shaquille O’Neal free throw.
Stanton’s fourth long ball of the year helped Miami cruise to a 9-1 win.
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