It didn't even sound that loud off the bat, but it was moving fast enough and was walloped hard enough to go up and up, and then over the head of Danny Valencia like a bird blotting out the sun.
Birds are tiny. The sun is not. But you get close enough, boy, and what you see is nothing, what you see is shadows what you see is this:
After hanging in the air for 5.27 seconds, the baseball finally came to earth right inside the Mariners' bullpen, which is kind of ironic considering that's the very spot where just about all his value came from.