Why so many LOOOOONG Home Runs?

[Aristotelian]

Rhea Butcher had an astrophysicist on her podcast. If I understood correctly, she said the ball isn't juiced per se but it travels farther due to being more perfectly circular than previous balls. https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/forever-dog-podcast-network/rhea-butchers-world-series-podcast/e/62684213

[Oriole1940]

So many moonshots might be due to  the lack of talent of Orioles pitchers.

[bobmc]

Correa over the BP's and to the monuments at 474!

 

[OsEatAlEast]

My memory of it could be fuzzy. But I'm just about positive that David Ortiz put one over both bullpens in the mid 2000's. I find it really odd that it doesn't show up in the longest homeruns in Camden Yards history. Did they forget to count one maybe(I doubt it). But it had to have been over 450'.

It had to have been this game. I do remember Rick Helling pitching and he only pitched one season for the O's.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BAL/BAL200308030.shtml

Edited August 11, 2019 by OsEatAlEast