Giancarlo Stanton hit a baseball very far and helped the Miami Marlins win against the Philadelphia Phillies.
Who hit the longest home run of the MLB season so far?
The answer now is Miami Marlins outfielder Giancarlo Stanton who hit a ball so hard and so far that I’m not quite sure it’s landed yet. My sources with NASA are still trying to locate it, but it may be orbiting the moon at the moment.
With the Marlins and Phillies locked up in a 4-4 tie in the bottom of the eighth inning, Stanton stepped to the plate and knocked the pitch out of the park and it landed 475 feet away from home plate to give him the longest bomb of the MLB season thus far.
The dinger was his tenth of the season as Stanton looks to make a push for 50 home runs and if he can stay healthy, I think that’s a target he can hit. I mean, he hasn’t had any trouble hitting much of anything lately and the ball just has a different sound when it comes off hit bat.
The Marlins were criticized for giving Stanton a contract worth more than $300 million but I think their investment will be worthwhile and should at least pack the seats until the Marlins are ready to trade him. Because that’s what the Marlins do when they have a good player, they trade them in the middle of his prime.
Hopefully, for Marlins fans they’ll get to see a few hundred more homers from the jacked up Stanton over the years.
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