Christian Encarnacion-Strand knocked a baseball completely out of Fenway Park on Wednesday night, doing so with the bases loaded and the Cincinnati Reds teetering on the edge of being swept by the Boston Red Sox.
It was positively majestic, measuring at 439 feet after coming off the bat at 109.1 mph, per MLB.com’s Statcast, and it sailed clear over the Green Monster in left-center.
It was desperately needed by the Reds, who claimed the final game of the series 8-4 and moved to 45-42 on the season. More than that, though, it was desperately needed by CES, who’d slumped to just 8 for his last 54 with nary a homer across his previous 15 games (54 PA) after bursting back onto the scene as he came off the injured list in early June.