The Rockies hit back-to-back homers in the top of the 10th inning to take a 7–4 lead over the Giants in San Francisco on Tuesday night. Ryan McMahon’s two-run shot broke the tie and C.J. Cron added an insurance run with a dinger that was much more impressive than it may have appeared at first glance.
Cron, a right handed batter, hit a liner the opposite way that cleared the 25-foot fence in right field. As Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman of Céspedes Family BBQ pointed out, Cron’s opposite-field homer was a rare achievement. Since the introduction of MLB’s Statcast system in 2015, there have been a total of 24 home runs by right handed batters hit to the opposite field at Oracle Park (excluding two inside-the-parkers hit by Kelby Tomlinson and Javier Báez).