Longest home run ever: Farthest home run in MLB history, longest home runs in 2022

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• Mo Vaughn – 505 Feet, on June 26, 2002
• His Thursday blast against the Royals checked in at 485 feet
• José Ramírez: 447 feet
• Christian Yelich, Milwaukee Brewers, 499 feet
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• Mickey Mantle, New York Yankees outfielder – 565 feet, Griffith Stadium

He crushed it off of the light fixture high above the green monster in left field and atop of the Coca-Cola bottles that sit just below the lights. It was his second home run of the day and one of his 41 homers in his first year in Boston. Manny’s 12 total years of 30+ home runs were no fluke, even if he had a little bit of help. Malcolm Emmons-USA TODAY SportsWillie Stargell is among the Hall of Famers who are also recognized as one of the best power hitters in MLB history. The Pittsburgh Pirates legend finished with 475 home runs, but it was a 535-foot blast at Olympic Stadium that lands on our list.

After playing a major role in the Red Sox 2004 championship drive, Ortiz joined an all-star team for a tour of Japan. In a 5-3 win against the Japan Stars at the Tokyo Dome, Ortiz drove a ball into the lights high above the upper deck in right field. The 2021 season was filled with moonshots aplenty, as MLB hitters combined to swat nearly 6,000 home runs.

Mo Vaughn – 505 Feet, on June 26, 2002

With the game on the line, Buxton not only won the game for Minnesota, but he did it with an exclamation point. All those potential feelings he may have had didn’t lead to much production, though. This dinger was the first hit he registered against his former club in 12 plate appearances. Sanchez ended up collecting four more hits against Yankee pitching, which led to a .636 OPS in 22 plate appearances. When discussing the four homers of 490-plus feet at Coors Field this year, the one slugged by Jesus Sanchez was the first. Sanchez nearly flew out of his shoes while getting the barrel through the hitting zone.

This blast from another massive first baseman was as sweet as his name. In a game for the D-backs back in 2004, Sexson delivered a bomb to straight away center field that could barely be followed by the cameraman. On its way down, in cranked off of the scoreboard located well above the playing surface on the second deck level of Chase Field. This blast from Sexson reminds us all why he’s not just one of the best names in sports, but that he was also a home run and RBI producer as well. Like Soto above, Trevor Story took advantage of his then-home field and crushed numerous baseballs into the left field stands.

His Thursday blast against the Royals checked in at 485 feet

However, the longest home run in Rockies history came in a road game against the Florida Marlins in May, 1997. This particular homer came courtesy of “The Big Cat” Andres Galarraga, who absolutely smoked an inside pitch from Marlins’ ace Kevin Brown into the top deck of the old Pro Players Stadium. Brown wasn’t known for giving up a lot of home runs, but the Cat sure lit him up. Big Mo struggled with injuries late in his career, but you’d never know it witnessing this moon shot he hit as a member of the New York Mets.

Since then, it’s gone from 50.8% in 2020 to 54.4% in 2021 to 58.6% in 2022.

José Ramírez: 447 feet

Seager will return to his former home ballpark for the first time as a Ranger on Monday looking to send even more pitches into the Dodger Stadium bleachers. This right handed power hitter was nicknamed “Kong” and he was a powerful hitter known for his multitude of strikeouts and his long home runs, his finest of which measured at 530 feet. It came against the Phillies at Wrigley Field while Kingsman was with the Cubs back in 1979.

Similarly, Comiskey's left-field roof was also visited by many batted balls, but only one is confirmed to have cleared it on the fly. That homeric deed was performed by the powerful Jimmie Foxx on June 16, 1936. As Ruth's talents waned in the early 1930s, Foxx began his ascendancy.

When gargantuan Frank Howard hit a mighty home run off Robin Roberts in Philadelphia on September 1, 1958, the next great tape measure home run career was initiated. One of the largest men ever to play major league baseball, at six feet seven inches, 275 pounds, Howard was the absolute epitome of size and strength. His trail of National League home runs was already legendary when he moved to the American League in 1965. Before he retired after the 1973 season, he had performed even more extraordinary feats of long-distance hitting in the junior circuit. It took prodigious strength to reach the upper deck at Washington's Robert F. Kennedy Stadium, but "Hondo" did it 24 times, ranging from the left-field foul pole all the way to straightaway center field.

He wasn't trying to "memorialize it." He did say a University of Colorado professor called him shortly after the measurements came out and agreed with how he came up with the distance. A perfect swing, the high altitude and maybe, just maybe, the bat he used all played a role. When Meyer came up for the at-bat in question that night, he had already homered. But players on the field thought it had only gone out because of the thin Rocky Mountain air. Meyer's high school coach in Honolulu still raves about his power, saying he could come out right now and still hit homers. The first baseman was even given the Barry Bonds treatment in his school days, getting intentionally walked with the bases loaded.

Glenallen Hill was playing for the Cubs when he smashed a monstrous home run out of the park against the Milwaukee Brewers. It went so far as to land across the street, on the rooftops of the homes behind the left field fence. One of the longest home runs in Wrigley Field history came from a guy who had 11 that season at age 33, and who, throughout his career, was an average hitting outfielder.

Acuña had already proven his power had matured to another level when he went 473 feet off Yankees ace Gerrit Cole earlier in the 2020 season. But this was an even more epic shot off Boston's Chris Mazza, reaching the concourse behind the seats in left-center field at Truist Park to give the Braves a 1-0 lead after just one at-bat. Richie Sexson stood so tall in the batters box you would think that he was tall enough to play in the NBA. The 6’6″ journeyman outfielder had great extension, enough to hit 306 career homers, mostly during his prime with the Seattle Mariners and the Milwaukee Brewers. He smoked his longest career home run in Arizona off of Chicago Cubs pitcher Francis Beltran.