Galarraga connects for a tape-measure grand slam
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- 5/31/97: Andres Galarraga's grand slam lands halfway up the upper deck in Florida Check out MLB.com/video for more!About MLB.com: Baseball Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig announced on January 19, 2000, that the 30 Major League Club owners voted unanimously to centralize all of Baseball's Internet operations into an independent technology company. Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLBAM) was formed and charged with developing, building and managing the most comprehensive baseball experience available on the Internet. In August 2002, MLB.com streamed the first-ever live full length MLB game over the Internet when the Texas Rangers and New York Yankees faced off at Yankee Stadium. Since that time, millions of baseball fans around the world have subscribed to MLB.TV, the live video streaming product that airs every game in HD to nearly 400 different devices. MLB.com also provides an array of mobile apps for fans to choose from, including At Bat, the highest-grossing iOS sports app of all-time. MLB.com also provides fans with a stable of Club beat reporters and award-winning national columnists, the largest contingent of baseball reporters under one roof, that deliver over 100 original articles every day. MLB.com also offers extensive historical information and footage, online ticket sales, official baseball merchandise, authenticated memorabilia and collectibles and fantasy games. Visit MLB.com: mlb.mlb.com Subscribe to MLB.TV: mlb.mlb.tv Download MLB.com At Bat: mlb.mlb.com/mob... Download MLB.com At The Ballpark: mlb.mlb.com/mob... Play Beat The Streak: mlb.mlb.com/bts Get MLB Tickets: mlb.mlb.com/tic... Get Official MLB Merchandise: mlb.mlb.com/shop Major League Baseball consists of 30 teams split between the American and National Leagues. The American League, originally founded in 1901, consists of the following teams: Baltimore Orioles; Boston Red Sox; Chicago White Sox; Cleveland Indians; Detroit Tigers; Houston Astros; Kansas City Royals; Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim; Minnesota Twins; New York Yankees; Oakland Athletics; Seattle Mariners; Tampa Bay Rays; Texas Rangers; and Toronto Blue Jays. The National League, originally founded in 1876, consists of the following teams: Arizona Diamondbacks; Atlanta Braves; Chicago Cubs; Cincinnati Reds; Colorado Rockies; Los Angeles Dodgers; Miami Marlins; Milwaukee Brewers; New York Mets; Philadelphia Phillies; Pittsburgh Pirates; San Diego Padres; San Francisco Giants; St. Louis Cardinals; and Washington Nationals. Subscribe to MLB.com on RUclips for the exclusive and best MLB content: / mlb Join the conversation: Facebook: / mlb Twitter: / mlb Pinterest: / mlbam Instagram: / mlbofficial Tumblr: / mlb Google+: plus.google.com...
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That was a football stadium. Any baseball stadium today and that ball was into the parking lot. And at sea level in thick humidity, give a guy some credit. Sheesh.
patton303 nah, this steroid head was nothing special. There were better, like McGwire.
Nah, McGwire did have some bombs, but I think this is the furthest ball I've ever seen hit.
Nah
Yeah. Mos Def
Nah Homie G. It ain't even like that.
This is the most obscene destruction of a baseball I've ever seen. lol
How far was it measured?!?!
+tristen539 actually 529
Tim Thompsonk
I agree. I've seen a lot of videos and I still think this is the furthest ball ever hit.
I agree Joe. MLB originally had the distance at 585 feet. it was changed the following day to 529. Part of me believes MLB doesn't want to see Mantles reported 565 record broken
I’ve been watching home run highlights today. I’m convinced this is the hardest hit ball in the history of the game. The swing, the sound, just amazing.
I agree. Never seen one more perfectly crushed. Watched it live on TV and was amazed.
This and glenallen hill for me. 😅
Keep in mind, that was a FOOTBALL stadium!! The ball landed 6 or 7 rows from the top! Had to be over 600ft! It had to be!
I don’t understand why this homerun isn’t more well-known. This is one of the longest Homerun severe hit. Jesus Christ. That ball was pulverized.
Cursing..not necessary😞
I didn't realize he hit this off Kevin Brown! Even more impressive!
Facts me too
Terrible hanger lol
I think he hit another grand slam off of Brown in the playoffs In tbe late 90’s when Brown was with the padres and galleraga was with the Braves
Kevin Brown was coming off a year where his ERA was under 2
Absolutely. This was during Brown’s prime too!
Article I read says a baseball travels 9% farther at 5280 ft vs sea level. So if this were at Coors Field it would've been like 600 ft and completely out of the stadium
tinton3w true, out to left there’s just bleachers at Coors, out to right there are three decks.
It would have landed in Aspen or Boulder lol...
Out of the stadium my left eye. It would have left the state.
My favorite homerun.....ever
Guy almost hit it out of a football stadium
Me too, I was watching it live on fox Saturday baseball getting ready to go to my park n rec game
THATS WHAT IM SAYING!!!!
Crazy how the camera didn't even pan high enough to catch where it landed initially. That was easily hit three quarters of the way up the upper deck
856 feet
minimum
856 miles*
857
Look, anyone that knows/follows baseball should easily recognize this as one of (if not THE) longest blasts in MLB history. Direct from the Rockies site/media, it was originally measures at 579 then reduced to 529. There are a lot of conspiracy theories as to why that reduction, but it probably does have something to do with baseball wanting to keep Mantle in the record books with the longest HR. MLB is VERY political and if people don't think that other factors are at play here, they are sadly mistaken. If you need further proof, just look at the joke of 468 ft that ESPN's HR Tracker calculated this mammoth shot at in 2011. 468 feet? What do they think we are, idiots? Most likely that technology is ok for today's games that have 20 camera angles of HD quality video, but clearly they have insufficient data to correctly calc this HR's distance. As an example of proof, look at some of the HR's Judge hit in the HR hitting contest in 2017 AS Game in Miami. Granted, different stadium, but LF dimensions were similar between the 2 parks. Judge hit several bombs over 500 feet, but Galarraga's blast certainly appeared to be going well further than any of them. They probably had it right the first time at 579, but clearly, Big Cat hit this thing at least 550!
The ball coming in by Brown was probably in the mid 90's unlike a home run contest. Galarraga's stepped into his swing with all his force. Nelson Cruz and Manny Machado have gone to this open stance. I think it's effective because pitchers don't know where to pitch you.
Agreed! In my opinion, I think it was closer to 600. The camera caught it only after it started rolling back not where it landed. It looked like 10-12 rows from the top. That was beyond mammoth!!...even the sound was different! It’s a beautiful thing!
Didn't Babe hit one that was estimated at about 620 feet ? I think it was in Pittsburgh or Detroit it completely cleared the stadium.
They projected Mcgwires upper deck shots in this stadium as 500 feet. His were a couple of rows back. Big cat hit this one ³/⁴ of the way up. 550 ft easy
You’re 100 percent correct but not just any football stadium....that Miami stadium is HUGE! The top deck is way up high and he hit to the upper third part of it....damn near out of the stadium.....for my money it’s the farthest ball ever hit by anyone other than Bo Jackson.....because he’s hit some unmeasurables too lol
I’m almost 50 and used to watch the Expos play in the 80s and 90s. I was sad to see the Big Cat go play for someone else, but man, he was a beauty. I was happy when his career took an upward trajectory, despite the few health setbacks he suffered. As for this home run, he hit that ball like it owed him money. 😳
That bat flip tho 😭
I was born in 88 and grew up absolutely loving this guy. I was mesmerized by his stance/swing. Nobody my age even knows who this dude is :( so underrated
Me too bro
Depends where you're from
Born in 1990 and I know About him
The cat!
hahaha totally agree.
I don't know that I've ever seen a ball explode off the bat quite like this home run from the Big Cat. The sound, the swing, the trajectory. Truly one of the all-time home runs.
Whatever they say, this is the longest home run in MLB history, the wind is not an excuse, in an American football stadium, almost above the entire second floor, without steroids, pure power. The Bug Cat from Venezuela
Sin duda siii fue una brutalidad tercer piso casi vuela el estadio completo
Andrés Galarraga, my childhood idol. I still have newspaper clippings of his accomplishments in the major leagues. Now, that was power.
Most impressive home run of my lifetime, I mean its a football stadium and he still almost hit it out of the stadium
When people say longest HR, my first thought is this one by Galarraga . It looked like an aspirin when it landed
630 feet
journalist americans =529 .....
@Indrid Cold yea, it hit 490 feet away and was still that high up
I remember watching this game. Initially this shot was measured at like 582. But then they changed it to 479 or something. The announcers even commented that that was bunk. Saying I guess someone decided no one could hit a ball farther than Mickey Mantle so they changed the distance. I still think that's the hardest hit ball I've seen!
In 1987, I saw him launch 12 straight BP fastballs on to Waveland Ave in Chicago. He was a strong dude
I will debate with anyone that this was the furthest hit baseball in MLB history....
They need to upload his epic homerun in San Francisco back in 2001 that hit the large glove deep in the left field bleachers!
Love Kevin Brown's reaction. Galarraga hit that ball so far that KB had to check and make sure he still had both of his...
THE BIG CAT!! One of my favorite childhood players on the Expos and later Rockies. Always a great hitter, could have easily won an MVP award between '96 and '98 with the insane numbers he put up.
He had ahead of him those guys who were juicing like McGwyre, Sosa, Palmero, Gambia, A-Rod. But even then his 1998 season with 47 HR, 150 RBIs, .318 BA was MVP material
That ball needed its own flight attendant!
I've been a Rockies fan since their inception in 1993 and this is by far one of my all time favorite Rockies moments. Galarraga absolutely went beast mode on that baseball. And the fact that he smashed that ball in Florida makes it even better. Had he launched that baseball in Colorado, it would have easily been the farthest homerun in history.... hell, it would probably still be flying!
It IS the longest HR in history. They just don’t have the balls to acknowledge it.
I've watched a lot of HR's and I think this may be the furthest. He stepped into the ball and hit it dead on.
Idolo y Gladiador deportivo nacido en Venezuela... Andres "El Gato" Galarraga!!
That is one of the top 3 longest home runs in Baseball history. They didn't measure it correctly. Galarraga "The Big Cat" is definitely a legend.
Clobbers the fuck out of that ball and pimps the fuck out of it. What a legend
Lmaoooo I laughed way harder than I should have
For those who say he was helped by playing in Denver.. well that was at sea level 😅😅
That’s the longest homerun ever.
2nd. Joey meyer
Let's talk about thin air in Colorado now. Oh wait, this was in Florida! Well, if he had hit it at home it would have come down in Kansas.
Wyoming. Coors Field is pointed North/Northwest.
I have read that baseballs travel about 8-9 % further in Coors Field. If he had hit this ball at home, it would've traveled... 529 feet by 1.08 = 571 feet.
I came here because last night Trevor Story hit a 505 ft HR in Coors Field, the longest ever hit there. That's really impressive, but this Galarraga's HR is out of this world.
Technically it would have gone towards Utah
@@JABoyle3875 You're right!
Something that barry and mark could not do with so many steroids MLB without latins is just LB
As Skip Carey would say" That ball was ticketed". Open stance, stepped into it, timing perfect, huge dude(maybe on roids), hanging 90mph slider from Brown(definitely on roids). All the factors which made this era of baseball interesting to say the least.
And the MLB never took out the measuring tape, and never will..... this is for sure, the longest homer in history
This was projected at 529 feet. For reference, McGuire and Canseco have the longest projected home runs at 545 and 540 feet, respectively.
I was glad I was able to find this. The distance was originally announced as being 573 feet and then was revised to be 529 (probably after realizing that would be further than Mickey Mantle's longest homer). I'd love to see Statcast on this. I also think Kevin Brown had buzzed Galarraga in an earlier at bat, so I believe there was some payback involved.
Ron Sasso My memories are of Galaragga getting beaned later in this game as retaliation, and then charging the mound. IDK if it happened.
The official longest home run is apparently a 575-footer Ruth hit in 1921. I've heard all my life that Mantle and Jim Rice had hit 600-footers, but apparently (and sadly) not.
I have read that baseballs travel about 8-9 % further in Coors Field. If he had hit this ball at home, it would've traveled... 529 feet by 1.08 = 571 feet.
I came here because last night Trevor Story hit a 505 ft HR in Coors Field, the longest ever hit there. That's really impressive, but this Galarraga's HR is out of this world.
More payback the other way. They didn't like his bat flip and how he admired that moonshot, Dennis Cook dared the Cat to charge the mound by beaning him and Galarraga obliged.
I was at this game and couldn't believe where this ball landed. I had never seen anyone hit the ball into the 2nd deck let alone halfway up the section.
Almost completely out of a football stadium..😳
Awesome to see this great moment again! Big Cat was one of my favorite all-time players and I remember coming absolutely unglued when I saw this the first time. Arguments aside over the actual projected length, he crushed that ball probably harder than I've ever seen another ball hit in almost 40 years of watching baseball! And given the situation, bases loaded off a very tough Kevin Brown who had only given up 1 HR in 70 IP prior, this is without a doubt, one of the most epic blasts in MLB history (and not even hit in Colorado lol)!
I've watched his swing 50 times trying to figure out how the fuck this is possible. 530 ft on a humid day in Miami. Some things just defy reason.
Ki699 yep
Low hands
Steroids, that's how
Señoras y señores estamos ante uno de los jonrones mas largos en la historia del beisbol. El gran gato casi la bota de un estadio de casi 4 plantas, solo he visto dos palos dantescos este del Galarraga y otro de Jose Canseco. Lo que pasa es que los gringos no quiere que un latino los supere mucho menos en cuestion de Hun Runs y siempre quieren hacerlo todo a su medida y colocar a uno de los suyos. Pero me quedo con este Jonron del Gato Andres.
Exacto! Viva El Gato Grande!
Criollo Nacional te equivocas es el 2017 y aun no cae esa pelota! Cuando caiga tipo el año 2032 veremos a cuantos años luz cayó esa bola! Que batazo del gato siempre quise que se hiciera un juego de estrellas en ese estadio para q el hr derby fuera ahí a ver si alguien se medio acercaba a esa distancia de donde galarraga botó esa pelota, pero asumo q los gringos nunca iban a querer porque así uno tendría una mejor idea de la longitud del batazo q para mi Sin temor a equivocarme fue de más de 600 pies. Grandes esos rockies de colorados con dante bichete galarraga vinnie castilla ellis burke erick young con Don baylor de manager
Ing Nino tremendo Home Run y también estuvo en esa maquinaria Larry Walker
Totalmente de acuerdo. ese ha sido el home run mas largo de la historia de la MLB. esa pelota bajo del cielo congelada.orgullo de Venezuela. el gran gato
There's a lot of good discussion on distances here, just consider one thing: I watched hundreds of Marlins games at this stadium and can only remember a few other players even reaching the 3rd deck (Miguel Cabrera, Dan Uggla, maybe Pujols?). And those HRs barely reached...maybe the first 3 rows or so. Galarraga's went like 20 rows deep and was by FAR the deepest HR I've ever seen in that stadium...no one before or after ever came even remotely close to his. Also, it was Dennis Cook who beaned him later in the game!
The Big Cat from Caracas Venezuela and the Baseball Club Loenes del Caracas
The longest home run in MLB History.
The first mesure was over 600ft but for some unknown reason they took it down to 529. FAIL
i think they just didn't want him to break Micky Mantle's record for longest homerun.
I've never seen a homerun trot with so much swag lol
Most impressive game homerun I've ever seen. I was 17 at the time so I was amazed.
More amazed than the first time you heard dark side of the moon?
Estoy en el 2057 y les confirmo, esa pelota AÚN NO HA CAÍDO
Jose Fuentes jajajaa la partiste man es el hr más impresionante que he visto en mi vida
That follow through. The skip and the bat flip are as epic as the shot itself
Absolutely!
Glad so many people were there to see it.
🤣underrated comment
Without steroids...AREPA POWER...THAT BALL START IN MIAMI AND FINISH...MAYBE IN THE ROOKIE MOUNTAIN
Bro, i had seen this HR, other times in normal speed, now that i saw it in slowmo i finally realize i was watching a bounce and that the ball actually first Lands in 0:09, almost out of the stadium OMG!!!
You just don't see home runs like this these days
HabsFanMTL88 Giancarlo hits dingers just as far as this routinely, and Joc is beginning to. You totally do see home runs like this nowadays.
+Jefferson Johnson This has got to be one of the longest homeruns ever hit. Period. Yes, we see long shots these days but I would not say "routinely" as long as this one. This is an uncommon homerun.
Mid -ay of the upper deck in that stadium? Not a baseball stadium which would be curved towards the infield. That area was so far away they just put a tarp on it. I had heard at the time they called it at 561.
You don't see people using roids as much either.
routinely? I think you need a dictionary.
Yeah but he did in in Colora--
What, Florida???
when he was on the Giants, Galarraga hit one completely over the left field bleachers and almost hit the big glove, at 500 ft. hopefully they post the video of that one.
i saw that game in TV and i always remember that one...it was impressive as well. I´m still waiting for the replay too XD
That's easily one of the longest home runs I've ever seen. Up there with Kingman (1979, at Wrigley), McGwire (1989 - Kingdome) and Glenallen Hill (2000-Wrigley, on the roof.)
I was hoping you were gonna say glenallen shot.... Man oh man...
Hill and Kingman were both mis measured both over 560 feet
McGwire was 1997 before being traded to St Louis, off Randy Johnson
@@kevintucker466 ruclips.net/video/veYpqXwB3hw/видео.html
There's a whole bunch here as long or longer
Stanton hits a 480 foot shot last night and the internet went crazy... "that's cute" says Galarraga. In almost any other non-football stadium ballpark, that ball would have left the fucking yard and destroyed a windshield or building window. And I'm not talking about a puny little splash down in McCovey Cove or a Waveland Ave. shot in Wrigley. I'm talking about that ball would have cleared the fucking left field wall in pretty much any other park.
The distance of this home run was first announced as 573 feet, then changed to 529. Almost 20 years later, ESPN’s Home Run Tracker stated that the ball traveled "only" 468 feet. That's downright ridiculous! How could the first estimation be wrong by 105 feet? 105 feet! And the second one by 61 feet?
The ball landed on the 20th row of the upper deck. Watch this video in slow motion, stop it when you can see clearly the wall of the left field, and calc the distance from the wall (behind Marlins' left fielder) to the 20th row of the 2nd deck (at the left of the highest of the "Jackie Robinson 50 Years" paint). If, for instance, that point of the wall was at “only” 365 feet from home plate, would you believe that the ball landed only 103 feet further?
The first deck had some 15 rows, and that's about 50 feet. Now add 65 feet to the 20th row of the upper deck, and another 15-20 feet between the wall and the first deck. I'm talking about 500 feet, and these are conservative numbers!
And clearly, Trevor Story’s 505-feet homer at Coors Field was shorter than this.
If this was a 468 feet HR, it's actually IMPOSSIBLE that Ruth or Mantle had hit 560 feet home runs.
I watched this as it happened
Chase Knighton In the ballpark, or on TV?
+John Noonan tv.. i was 10 yrs old.. idk how i remember ..
El Gato…that was crushed! Only guy in MLB history to lead the league in hits AND strikeouts in the same year (1988).
Can't hit it if you don't swing.
Longest Homer in MLB history
Galarraga's eyes were LAZER-locked!! 0:02.
Side note: As expected, the next time AG came to the plate, Kevin Brown beamed him and the benches cleared because of the bat flip.
How mature of the Marlins to hold a grudge because he flipped a bat after a monster home run. He didn't flip the bat to be disrespectful. He earned it.
Marlins franchise has always been bush league
That sounded delicious.
IF THAT BALL ONLY TRAVELED 529, AINT NO WAY IN HELL MANTLE HIT ONE 700 feet.
Not only was I at this game but I was also at the first game of the 97 world series and my seats were right up against the back of the wall in left field in the same section that ball was hit and let me tell you for one thing when you are that high up you cant even see left field only center field and right field. That's high up this ball definitely traveled well over 500'
I know that the distance on this home run is a big debate, but SABR did an in-depth analysis and determined the ball was between 517 and 529 feet, most probably being 524 feet. I genuinely think that this is the furthest baseball ever hit.
McGuire, Sosa, and Bonds cranked out tons of homers, but this one was unlike any I have ever seen before or since. Rare combo of a very strong batter and perfect contact.
Later in this game reliever Dennis Cook drilled Galaragga for the bat flip sparking a brawl. I was there that day
That almost left a football stadium let that sink in 🇻🇪🇻🇪
probably the longest homerun I ever saw... amazing
One of the greatest Home Runs I ever saw👍🏿
Thats gotta be one of the longest homeruns I've ever seen, especially conaidering thats at sea level.
I mean, this has to be the longest HR caught on video. God bless that ball was obliterated
El gran gato de Venezuela, Andrés Galarraga.!! 🇻🇪
That's as far as I've ever seen a baseball hit there. Nearly out of the stadium.
That ball was hit over 600 feet Idc what anyone says.
I give zero fucks what anyone else says. That’s the longest home run ever hit.
AGREED!!!
100%
He was ejected later in the game for charging the mound after they threw at him.
Yep I was there alot of people either dont know about that or forget about it . I used to love going to games at joe Robbie I know it was pro player at that point but to us Floridians it will always be joe robbie
Takes balls to bean someone who can hit a HR 600 feet....
This home run just is so amazing to watch. An absolute bomb and every person in the ballpark knew it when the bat hit the ball.
700ft
Minimum
Their final measurement was bunk! That's the longest homerun I've seen in my life. I remember watching it live and telling my grandmother "that's gotta be the longest HR ever"! It was 424ft to the right of the old scoreboard in the power alley in left field, at field level! This ball was not that far from being hit out of a freaking football stadium! Still amazing!
That ball was the furthest I’ve seen hit. It looked like the size of an aspirin when it lands
Furthest ball ever hit absolutely
434
Hard to believe he was 36 here.
Mike Hawk 35. Big Cat has a June birthday, this was 5/31/97. Still though, you're right, this dude had some seriously productive seasons late in his playing career.
one of my all time favorite right handed hitters.
The Big Cat! Story has it... that ball still hasnt landed yet
Jesus. Imagine if he hit that at home in Coors Field….
EL MEJOR PELOTERO VENEZOLANO HASTA QUE LO PASE MIGUEL CABRERA EN NUMEROS.
I remember watching this highlight on Sportcenter when I was kid and 24 years later it’s still one of the most impressive in game home runs I’ve ever seen.
Saw it live and my jaw fell open. Man.
You were in the stadium?
@@EddieDuranLLC Naw, it was on TV.
I was at that game with my grandfather. I was a 15 year old Miami kid. My grandfather has passed. I’ll never remember watching that homerun live. It was a very hot and humid day.
Juiced or not, man, that was a beautiful thing!! Wow!!
How the Rockies and Mariners didn't win multiple World Series in the 90's is mind blowing. Just look at their lineups.
In the Rockies case, they hadn't installed the humidor yet at Coors, and pitching was as much a challenge then as it still is for them today (I would know as a Rockies fan).
The Rockies’ case is 100% on the complete inability to foster any kind of a starting pitching rotation. Pedro Astacio was the only halfway decent pitcher they seemed to find in the 90s. Also, not even the Blake Street Bombers could find their swing against the Braves’ rotation in 1995.
Exacto.605.feet.longer. oquey.
admit it... the ball surpased at least 520 feet....
insisto, al año 2014 esta pelota aun no ha terminado de caer del cielo xD
Te informo que en septiembre de 2018, ESA PELOTA AÚN NO HA CAÍDO.
Mayo 2019...todavia estan esperando que caiga
But how do you sail into the lead when your already up 😂
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I really don't think a man can hit a ball harder. Unreal.
That one hit the roof of our flat Earth firmament lol.
We all know this is the longest homerun ever hit
When I was a kid and I went to that stadium my step dad told me and showed me where Galarraga hit that ball....I honestly didn't believe it. If you went to that stadium and saw how far it was to hit it there....you would not believe it. Until you see this video.
I was at the game. I never heard a ball hit that hard
Without a doubt this is the longest HR ever hit especially with a wooden bat.
This ball was hit over 550 no doubt
I played mens softball in the 90's and I paterned my swing off of Andres. His open stance allows for BOTH eyes to be facing the pitcher and his recoiling then exploding thru the pitch deveolps all the power you can develop from your body. He recoils back then goes forward with his hips, then his hands. Its perfect for slow pitch but this guy was so good he did it in fast pitch like a boss. Once I perfected this stance I was driving the ball way further than a typical stance.
Mammoth shot!
Yeah, any ballpark today and that leaves the yard