Seattle Post-Intelligencer · Sep 2, 2015
Mariners slugger Mark Trumbo crushed a baseball 464 feet and it hit a train
Mark Trumbo can hit a baseball very far.
It’s perhaps the main reason recently-fired Mariners general manager Jack Zdruriencik traded for Trumbo back in June even though Seattle had to send two prospects, reliever Dominic Leone and much-needed backup catcher Welington Castillo to the Diamondbacks.
Trumbo has raw power, and he showed it in the fifth inning Tuesday in a 7-5 win over the Astros at Minute Maid Park.
Facing reliever Vincent Velasquez, Trumbo launched a two-run homer that had a projected distance of 464 feet, according to MLB.com’s Statcast, with the ball ricocheting off the front of the train. The towering blast (exit velocity was 111.9 miles per hour) gave the Mariners a 5-3 lead.