Is the longest home run ever hit?

What is the longest home run of all time? Here is the longest verified home run in professional baseball history! In 1987, Joey Meyer, playing for the Triple-A Denver Zephyrs, launched this ball an astonishing 582 FEET! The media could not be played.
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Has anyone ever hit a 600 foot home run?

Babe Ruth was said to have hit a home run over 600 feet. A Mickey Mantle homer was originally estimated to have gone 734 feet. While those feats would shatter Meyer's mark, there was no technology or tool that could give an exact measure of those distances.
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Has anyone ever hit a 500 foot home run?

Glenallen Hill, 500 Feet (2000)

In his penultimate 2000 season, Glenallen Hill registered a career-high 27 home runs for the Chicago Cubs and New York Yankees. As ESPN's Home Run Tracker verifies, one moonshot on May 11, 2000, went 500 feet with a 116.7 mph exit velocity.
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What are the 10 longest home runs ever hit?

Going, going, gone: The 10 longest home runs in MLB history
  • Adam Dunn – 504 Feet, on September 27, 2008. MLB. 4.05M subscribers. ...
  • Mo Vaughn – 505 Feet, on June 26, 2002. MLB. 4.05M subscribers. ...
  • Darryl Strawberry – 525 Feet, on April 4, 1988. MLB. 4.05M subscribers. ...
  • Reggie Jackson – 539 Feet, on July 13, 1971. MLB. 4.05M subscribers.
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Who hit the longest hr ever?

What is the longest home run of all time? Here is the longest verified home run in professional baseball history! In 1987, Joey Meyer, playing for the Triple-A Denver Zephyrs, launched this ball an astonishing 582 FEET! The media could not be played.
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Who hit the hardest homerun?

Stanton hit a 121.7 mph home run in 2018 against the Texas Rangers, which remains the hardest-hit home run to this day. He also managed a 121.3 mph home run against the Washington Nationals in 2020. Not to be outdone, Judge hit a 121.1 mph home run against the Orioles in 2017 when he was a rookie.
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Has anyone hit 7 home runs in a game?

"The White Sox hit seven home runs during Saturday's game against the Blue Jays at U.S. Cellular Field, and made dubious history in the process. Those seven long balls, all amazingly of the solo variety, were not enough to prevent a 10-8 loss.
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What is the slowest home run ever?

Harold Ramirez's 85.4 mph shot right down the LF line at the Trop had the lowest exit velocity of any over-the-wall HR ever tracked by Statcast.
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What is the lowest home run ever hit?

Playing for a minor league team called the Minnesota Millers back in 1900, Andy Oyler hit the shortest home run in the history of the entire world. The home run traveled only 24 inches—that's right, two feet!
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Has anyone thrown a no hitter and lost?

On April 23, 1964, Ken Johnson of the Houston Colt . 45s became the first pitcher to throw a nine-inning no-hitter and lose. In fact, he is still the only individual to throw an official (nine-inning) no-hitter and lose.
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What is the fastest pitch thrown?

Fastest pitch ever thrown

As a result, Aroldis Chapman is credited with throwing the fastest pitch in MLB history. On Sept. 24, 2010, Chapman made MLB history. Then a rookie relief pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds, the fireballer unleashed a fastball clocked at 105.1 mph by PITCH/fx.
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Has anyone hit 4 home runs in a row?

Mike Cameron, Rocky Colavito, Carlos Delgado, Scooter Gennett, Lou Gehrig, Bobby Lowe, J.D. Martinez, and Mike Schmidt hit each of their four home runs in consecutive order!
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What is a three pitch inning called?

One such rarity is the immaculate inning. You've probably heard of it -- an immaculate inning is when a pitcher strikes out all three batters in an inning, on three pitches each. The immaculate inning used to be very rare -- there were none from 1929-52.
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Has anyone ever hit 2 home runs in one inning?

Fifty-nine different players have hit two home runs in an inning of a Major League Baseball (MLB) game to date, the most recent being Gleyber Torres of the New York Yankees on September 21, 2022.
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What is the fastest pitch ever hit for a home run?

On a 1-2 count, Chapman unbleached a 102.8 mph fastball that, by all rights, should have been strike three. Instead, Devers whacked it for a 105.8 mph drive that landed 424 feet from home plate.
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What is the longest home run streak?

Most consecutive games with a home run
  • 8 STRAIGHT GAMES.
  • Ken Griffey, Jr., Mariners -- July 20-28, 1993.
  • Don Mattingly, Yankees -- July 8-18, 1987.
  • Dale Long, Pirates -- May 19-28, 1956.
  • 7 STRAIGHT GAMES.
  • Mike Trout, Angels -- Sept. 4-12, 2022.
  • Joey Votto, Reds -- July 24-30, 2021.
  • Kendrys Morales, Blue Jays -- Aug.
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Who is the fastest player to 100 home runs?

Ryan Howard: 325 games

Howard set the standard and then some, demolishing the previous record for fewest games to 100 career home runs. He hit No.
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What is the slowest pitch ever?

It is considered a trick pitch because, in comparison to normal baseball pitches, which run from 70 to 100 miles per hour (110 to 160 km/h), an eephus pitch appears to move in slow motion at 55 mph (89 km/h) or less, sometimes as low as 35 mph (56 km/h).
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Has there ever been a 2 pitch inning?

It's a pretty rare feat. But ... have you ever seen a two-pitch inning? As in, a pitcher only needs two pitches to record a clean inning of work? If you watched the Rome Braves' win over the West Virginia Power on Friday night, you did.
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What is the longest no-hitter?

After nearly 70 years, they still talk about that game in Winchester. It was no ordinary no-hitter. It went 17 innings, a feat still unchallenged as the longest no-hit game in professional baseball history.
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What's the most HR in a game?

The record for most home runs in a single game is eight, held by Jay Clarke for Corsicana of the Texas League on June 15, 1902.
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What's the hardest-hit ever?

During the Pittsburgh Pirates' 14-2 loss to the Atlanta Braves on Wednesday, Cruz recorded the hardest-hit ball in Statcast history, measuring at 122.4 mph.
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What is the fastest ever exit velocity?

122.4 MPH exit velocity! 😮 Oneil Cruz just hit the hardest-hit batted ball in Statcast era history!
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What is the hardest ball ever hit?

Oneil Cruz has hardest-hit ball recorded by MLB: 122.4 mph.
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What is the rarest thing in baseball?

Rarest of all is the unassisted triple play by an outfielder, performed only once in professional baseball history, by Walter Carlisle. It is possible for a team to score on a triple play, but that is also phenomenally rare.
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