Without doing any digging, and purely hypothetically thinking, I wonder if Giancarlo Stanton stayed in the NL if this would’ve happened already. I know most of his huge HRs are pull-side, but the combination of him hitting low-lining missiles and his huge EVs make me wonder. Great article as always, Sam!
I had a similar thought reading this article in that if Aaron Judge had signed with the Giants instead (or Arson Judge, if you prefer) if he would be one of the better candidates. He and Stanton both have sizeable opposite field power so if they can't do it, I'm not sure who can.
i can see oracle from my apartment three miles away up on a hill in SF - when i get my binoculars out, I can read the scoreboard (it was the first thing I did after finding out Mays died, and they already had a graphic up, despite no game going on at that time).
i think it's really cute that they have a camera in a place no one else would, specifically for cutting to the pedestrian walkway as a homer goes to right field to show if it's a splash hit or not. a bespoke solution.
PNC Park is the other park with right-field splash hits. MLB just did an article on 8/2 documenting how many balls have made the Allegheny River. Answer: 78. One of these was a right handed oppo grand slam by Paul Goldschmidt. Very few balls make the river in the air. It’s 456ft down the line into the drink. Most splash balls bounce off the wide river walk. When PNC opened in 2001 they had a sign near the foul pole to track splash dingers. After realizing how few would be hit into the water each year (about 3.3 average) they replaced the sign.
Without doing any digging, and purely hypothetically thinking, I wonder if Giancarlo Stanton stayed in the NL if this would’ve happened already. I know most of his huge HRs are pull-side, but the combination of him hitting low-lining missiles and his huge EVs make me wonder. Great article as always, Sam!
I had a similar thought reading this article in that if Aaron Judge had signed with the Giants instead (or Arson Judge, if you prefer) if he would be one of the better candidates. He and Stanton both have sizeable opposite field power so if they can't do it, I'm not sure who can.
i can see oracle from my apartment three miles away up on a hill in SF - when i get my binoculars out, I can read the scoreboard (it was the first thing I did after finding out Mays died, and they already had a graphic up, despite no game going on at that time).
i think it's really cute that they have a camera in a place no one else would, specifically for cutting to the pedestrian walkway as a homer goes to right field to show if it's a splash hit or not. a bespoke solution.
PNC Park is the other park with right-field splash hits. MLB just did an article on 8/2 documenting how many balls have made the Allegheny River. Answer: 78. One of these was a right handed oppo grand slam by Paul Goldschmidt. Very few balls make the river in the air. It’s 456ft down the line into the drink. Most splash balls bounce off the wide river walk. When PNC opened in 2001 they had a sign near the foul pole to track splash dingers. After realizing how few would be hit into the water each year (about 3.3 average) they replaced the sign.
Now, has a righty ever hit Eutaw Street?
The Orioles have a whole page dedicated to Eutaw St home runs. It looks like all came from the left-hand side.
https://www.mlb.com/orioles/ballpark/information/eutaw-street#homeruns
You just spoke this into existence
It’s funny Stanton was my first non Judge name. His extremely closed stance helps him keep his contact point farther out front on balls hit to RF.