The last time someone did what Matt Olson accomplished on Friday, the Oakland A’s slugger wasn’t even born yet.
The A’s won their first game of the 2020 season, and they did so in dramatic fashion. Oakland hosted the Angels in the Coliseum on Opening Day, and the two teams needed extra innings to decide it. In the 10th, with the bases loaded, Olson stepped up to the plate against lefty reliever Hoby Milner and obliterated a slider, launching it deep into the right-field bleachers.
Statcast measured it at 105.6 mph off the bat, and 427 feet in distance.