Save, perhaps, for a seed hit straight down the line to the Pesky Pole in Boston, it would be virtually impossible to hit a homer with a lower launch angle.īut Stanton hit the ball so hard, and Yankee Stadium proves so accommodating to balls drilled to right-center, that he managed to leave the yard and tie the game. To put that homer into context: In 2021, there were just two homers on balls with a launch angle of 15 degrees (one by Vlad Guerrero Jr., the other by Manny Machado). He hit it so hard (116 mph) that, despite the fact that it had just a 15-degree launch angle, it snuck just over the right-field fence in Yankee Stadium for a game-tying solo homer. He has not been able to do so on Opening Day of 2022.Ī 1-1 Eovaldi slider to Giancarlo Stanton caught far too much of the plate, and the ridiculously strong Yankee slugger sent a low-flying hypersonic rocket to right. Nate Eovaldi’s All-Star season in 2021 rested in no small part on his ability to keep the ball in the park. A unicorn home run by Stanton - 2:25 p.m.
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