Thank god for MLB’s Statcast system, otherwise we’d have no way of knowing that Juan Soto hit the longest home run of his career last night at Citi Field.
MLB’s sophisticated radar system tells us the ball left the bat at 112.9 mph (also making it Soto’s hardest-hit homer) and traveled 466 feet, but see if you can tell from the video where the ball landed.
Nationals broadcaster Bob Carpenter, calling the game off a monitor back in Washington, had no idea what happened to the ball. “High and deep and, evidently, way out of here,” he said.