415ft home run? more? you make the call

[richinspirit]

Re: 415ft home run? more? you make the call

I just hit the two longest homeruns ever in my 'show' career. both with Heyward, both on hanging breaking balls....first one was 453 into the braves dugout in right centre, second was 447 to the last row of seats slightly more central at turner field. Sometimes you feel like it should say something much higher, like when you clear the green monster or something,' and other times 404 seems much further than it was, I'd be interested to hear a clarification of how the game measures long balls!

[bfindeisen]

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Incorrect, I'll just say that much haha. It definitely takes into account where it would have landed had there been no seats.

Actually, I don't think this is the case. Example: Hit a home-run at Fenway over the Green Monster. If you hit a monster home run over the wall, seats, signs and everything, onto Landsdowne...the game only registers the hits as less than 400' (usually like 390...). It seems to stop calculating distance once the ball crosses a certain point...but this may just be a Fenway thing...

[Blzer]

Re: 415ft home run? more? you make the call

Actually, I don't think this is the case. Example: Hit a home-run at Fenway over the Green Monster. If you hit a monster home run over the wall, seats, signs and everything, onto Landsdowne...the game only registers the hits as less than 400' (usually like 390...). It seems to stop calculating distance once the ball crosses a certain point...but this may just be a Fenway thing...

That's strange, because if you hit a home run off the restaurant at Rogers Centre, you'll notice that if you hit it off the exact same place on a line drive versus a high fly ball, the line drive will actually have a further distance behind it, which is indeed correct.

So it may just be a Fenway thing, but remember that that wall is pretty close. It's like 310 down the line and 379 in left-center or so, which means it is possible to hit it under 400 feet at some places over that wall where you clear everything, given a high enough fly ball.

[Dog]

Re: 415ft home run? more? you make the call

I just hit the two longest homeruns ever in my 'show' career. both with Heyward, both on hanging breaking balls....first one was 453 into the braves dugout in right centre, second was 447 to the last row of seats slightly more central at turner field. Sometimes you feel like it should say something much higher, like when you clear the green monster or something,' and other times 404 seems much further than it was, I'd be interested to hear a clarification of how the game measures long balls!

i tend to think that a lot i guess ha

[n8fever]

Re: 415ft home run? more? you make the call

Actually, I don't think this is the case. Example: Hit a home-run at Fenway over the Green Monster. If you hit a monster home run over the wall, seats, signs and everything, onto Landsdowne...the game only registers the hits as less than 400' (usually like 390...). It seems to stop calculating distance once the ball crosses a certain point...but this may just be a Fenway thing...

It's a Minute Maid Park thing too...I've hit balls over the railroad tracks and out of the stadium, and it only registered like 375. Yes, MMP has the short porch (315') in left, but the one I hit was to left-center. Should have been 400'+ to that part of the park.

[harvey88]

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I think people tend to think that HR's go alot furthur then they actually do. Look at Cansecos monumental blast into the fith deck of the Rogers Centre in 1989. Though it was a huge blast if was measured to be 484 ft. Cecil Fielder to this date has the only confirmed HR to be over 500ft. He hit a 502ft HR at Milwakee County stadium in 1991. Though there have been many rumors of HR is the 550ft range by Micky Mantle ect.... Most experts now say that these numbers were highly exagerated. and to even hit a ball 500ft is almost impossible with a wooden bat. Here's are links to both good info about HR distance and Canseco's blast at the skydome.

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/feats/art_hr.shtml

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmcPOYThl2Q

[Dog]

Re: 415ft home run? more? you make the call

I think people tend to think that HR's go alot furthur then they actually do. Look at Cansecos monumental blast into the fith deck of the Rogers Centre in 1989. Though it was a huge blast if was measured to be 484 ft. Cecil Fielder to this date has the only confirmed HR to be over 500ft. He hit a 502ft HR at Milwakee County stadium in 1991. Though there have been many rumors of HR is the 550ft range by Micky Mantle ect.... Most experts now say that these numbers were highly exagerated. and to even hit a ball 500ft is almost impossible with a wooden bat. Here's are links to both good info about HR distance and Canseco's blast at the skydome.

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/feats/art_hr.shtml

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmcPOYThl2Q

wow, really interesting stuff. i guess i never really thought about how hard it is to hit a ball 500ft or even 450 for that matter

[cardsfan2222]

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It's a Minute Maid Park thing too...I've hit balls over the railroad tracks and out of the stadium, and it only registered like 375. Yes, MMP has the short porch (315') in left, but the one I hit was to left-center. Should have been 400'+ to that part of the park.

I've noticed that too, I've hit a home run to left center field and it will say 375, and the wall in that location is about 375 from home plate. My longest home runs always come at Wrigley where there aren't seats to get in the way.

[Blzer]

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Just wanted to bump and say that this home run by John Bowker last night went 393 feet:

http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=7888067

Here's a nice depiction of what his ball did:





It's obviously not as far as the one in your video went, but consider that it's also 22 feet less than what yours said, plus Bowker's seemed to have been more on a line than the lift on Howard's home run. That means if you take away the stands, Bowker's would have traveled further after it goes through those invisible stands because it was on a line. The blue is where it landed, the green is where it would have landed without stands. I think that makes sense, so Howard's home run seems distance correct.

[One51]

Re: 415ft home run? more? you make the call

Just wanted to bump and say that this home run by John Bowker last night went 393 feet:

http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=7888067

Here's a nice depiction of what his ball did:





It's obviously not as far as the one in your video went, but consider that it's also 22 feet less than what yours said, plus Bowker's seemed to have been more on a line than the lift on Howard's home run. That means if you take away the stands, Bowker's would have traveled further after it goes through those invisible stands because it was on a line. The blue is where it landed, the green is where it would have landed without stands. I think that makes sense, so Howard's home run seems distance correct.

Wow....

[Rangerneb]

Re: 415ft home run? more? you make the call

Just wanted to bump and say that this home run by John Bowker last night went 393 feet:

http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=7888067

Here's a nice depiction of what his ball did:





It's obviously not as far as the one in your video went, but consider that it's also 22 feet less than what yours said, plus Bowker's seemed to have been more on a line than the lift on Howard's home run. That means if you take away the stands, Bowker's would have traveled further after it goes through those invisible stands because it was on a line. The blue is where it landed, the green is where it would have landed without stands. I think that makes sense, so Howard's home run seems distance correct.

That post was intense, nice job.

[Dog]

Re: 415ft home run? more? you make the call

Just wanted to bump and say that this home run by John Bowker last night went 393 feet:

http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=7888067

Here's a nice depiction of what his ball did:





It's obviously not as far as the one in your video went, but consider that it's also 22 feet less than what yours said, plus Bowker's seemed to have been more on a line than the lift on Howard's home run. That means if you take away the stands, Bowker's would have traveled further after it goes through those invisible stands because it was on a line. The blue is where it landed, the green is where it would have landed without stands. I think that makes sense, so Howard's home run seems distance correct.

wow! thats intense. it would be sick if you could make on of those for the one in the video but that would be impossible... i can dream....